Originally Posted by OOfff (Post 3227603)

I love when pilots who didn’t spend a decade flying RJs and turboprops on pre-117 schedules complain about how hard scheduling is. The lack of perspective in some people is amazing.

Originally Posted by Crown (Post 3227616)

the horror story I like to tell from my regional days was sitting reserve for 6 days on, 2 days off, 5 days on. Commute in night before the rsv because our regional was AM reserve by default. So 2 leg it to day 1. First 5 days, nothing. Get a call on day 5, converting me to PM reserve so I can operate a turn on day 6, making it uncommutable. 26 hours at home, exact same thing happens on the next stretch. So in 2 weeks, making 20K a year, I was home for 26 hours.

But yeah, Delta has the worst reserve rules in the industry. :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by BlueSkies (Post 3227477)

Thanks for the info, I believe I was the only pilot in the days of avail grouping.

Originally Posted by OOfff (Post 3227620)

Exactly. Even among major airlines, our reserve is cake. Im sure drum wouldn’t love UAL’s global reserve or AA’s short and long call lines.


I carry an old printed trip sheet in my flight bag to remind me of a 20-leg 3-day with two 8-hour overnights just to keep myself in check. It paid me almost $450!

Originally Posted by fishforfun (Post 3227637)

I had a fresh out of auburn flight school quick spin at the regionals 20 something at a pilot hiring conference tell me it would be good for me to get some experience at the regionals to see what a 5 leg day was all about. I let her go on and on and finally said I’ve done my share of 5 leg days, with body armor and NVGs on. That was the end of our conversation. I hoped she gained some humility for us lowly 3000 hour mil pilots. We’ve all gone through the suck. We can play the “I had it harder than you” forever. There is always someone out there that had it worse and someone that had it better. Just because you may think you suffered more (nice victim mentality) doesn’t mean we can’t improve things. I tend to agree, our reserve system is far better than most airlines. But it could be improved.

Originally Posted by OOfff (Post 3227642)

I’m not saying my suck was worse or better than anyone else’s (nice reflexive defensiveness). I’m saying Drum’s delta suck is not bad at all.

Originally Posted by fishforfun (Post 3227637)

We’ve all gone through the suck. We can play the “I had it harder than you” forever. There is always someone out there that had it worse and someone that had it better. Just because you may think you suffered more (nice victim mentality) doesn’t mean we can’t improve things. I tend to agree, our reserve system is far better than most airlines. But it could be improved.

Originally Posted by fishforfun (Post 3227649)

Really? “I love when pilots who didn’t spend a decade flying RJs and turboprops on pre-117 schedules complain about how hard scheduling is. The lack of perspective in some people is amazing.”

Sure sounds like it here.

Originally Posted by Drum (Post 3227505)

2 days is not enough to get Malarone especially when you get awarded that DSS trip on a Friday for a Sunday departure.

Just happened to me. That's why I hate ****ing reserve on the ER. When I was a line holder (I'm 50% in category and getting reserve BTW - not by choice) I would bid avoid any malaria destination. Unfortunately as reserve you don't get a choice. I don't keep malarone on the shelf either. See above line holder comment.

I tried frantically to get some malarone on a Friday before my trip. No luck. Heck if I was a junky and needed methadone, I could walk into a local clinic and get it for free no questions 24/7. Try to get Malarone in a day? Two? No dice. Hopefully I put enough deet on me to prevent from getting bitten. Guess I'll find out if that worked soon enough.

I am really starting to hate my decision to come to DAL 5 years ago. Should have gone with FedEx. At least there you get better service for going to places that require this crap. Our reserve rules suck. Our union sucks since the ATL surrender mob took over. Been really quiet lately. WTF.

Rant over. and hoping I didn't get malaria.