Sometimes if you pull up the id's of the other pilots from the reserve availability list you'll see just that, they're out flying but return on said date.

Wow...

http://www.cardatabase.net/modifieda...g/00002791.jpg

I'm sure I'll get a bunch of calls this weekend if the weather acts up but like you said, if its a 1.5 hour flight to an overnight to a 1.5 deadhead return, why give up a holiday over 3 hours of pay that? If it was the same as regular pay, I'd do it.

Just being honest.

Yeah I noticed that too. On that day that I finished a trip I noticed that I was showing as available - weird and also confusing if you were below me on the list, and trying to figure out if you were next up.
I guess to really play it safe you should look up the schedule of the guys above you on the list to confirm exactly what they have going on.

Scoop

Scoop, how do you do that? I just tried and I couldn't figure it out.

Buzz,

I have never done it but I believe that if you have their employee number you can look up schedules via DBMS. I don't think it is a reserve specific funtion. I know that you can look up schedules in the personal information section of DBMS, but I think there is probably other ways to do it. Sorry I can't help more but its been a few months since I bid reserve.

Scoop

Hey Buzz,

The scheduling computer system looks at days of availability and not who is finishing trips. Therefore, you will see guys with lower scores who would technically be first up, but they could be finishing a trip that day and be unavailable due to rest or scheduling constraints to do the trip. Its frustrating, I bid reserve for the past few years and occasionally got burned by where I thought I was the least likely to get called only to find out it wasn't the case.

With their employee number you can go to schedules in DBMS and substitute their employee number for yours and their schedule will come up. As you probably know, you will then be listed at the bottom of their schedule telling them that you checked their schedule.

Denny

for instance, I'm showing on the reserve list for tomorrow but i dont get back to base until 1900 so really i'm not worth anything as far as a reserve. But for other reserves looking at the list, they wouldnt know it by looking at the list. That could really hose you if you think others on the list before Appear to be before you on the call list.

Thanks Denny. That worked. One of the guys is coming off a trip. The weird thing is that the other guy shows SC on his schedule but available on the reserve availability listing. Any way, that answers my question.

Maybe on Icrew 2.0 they can start showing a pilots status or eligibility next to their name on the resv aval list.