I have been a 900 CA for a year on reserve and have not flown less than 15 hours a month. Average is probably 40 or so. We also have had much worse IROPS and still have way more people available at the end than we do now, we are simply short staffed on captains. They need to open more positions and stop making people wait 2-3 months for a class. Now idk what the FO or any other base looks like, I can only speak to my 900 captain experience.

Have you picked up trips from opentime on days off?

Have you called scheduling to see if they have "something for you to do
?"

And did you confirm CA reserve for at least a year?

How can you guess an average without data? Where did you pull the 40 hours from? Is that what other pilots say? I ask because the reserve pilots I fly with say much less. We have line pilots getting credit pushes and reserve pilots getting 4 hours. That seems pretty crazy to me (maybe it's just pilots saying stuff, but I have also been shown flight crew view screens that verify)...is a minimum reserve block time a technical impossibility? Going into line checks with 10 hours in last 672 is not fun.

40 hrs is his average

So I guess that begs the question, why are they upgrading so few pilots? I've been here nearly 2 years and there's 400+ FO above me in line to upgrade.

Atl 900 CA for the last year bidding first out.

6 months so I was flying less than 15 hours per month, now I probably only sit one or two days out of a 5 day stretch. But it's all out and backs down here. Think I'm averaging about 20 hours per month right now without pickups. I usually drop and pick up a little to get me over 40. I'm not on RSV this month so Idk. But that's my reality in case anyone cares

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My category gets into low single digits, if not zero for available reserves every day...not sure where you are but reserves are definitely flying...

None of this talk has anything to do with "Fleet Tracking"! Move it to the other forum.

Thanks!

Nah

Filler

Funny how you line holders are telling those on rsv how much or little they are working. Both Msp CA’s and FO’s are working almost every day. It’s not full trips it’s fly 2 dh1 or vice versa.
We are running out of CA rsv’s
A lot lately in multiple bases.
All verified on flica or by conversations with CS. It’s the planning department that decides
On crew metrics. Send a email to a a top level guy asking why
No upgrades when we’re running
Short. It’s cheaper to pay a CA 150% to pickup than upgrade an FO. Sadly it comes from the top.

This is a contract violation waiting to happen; reserve assignment order is contractual.

You're also potentially taking away open time that someone else could pick up at 150% or more.

Either way, don't do it.