I sit reserve and have credited over 100 hrs the last few months and I've probably been away from home 10 nights total. I reduce my days off to min by doing that but I also rarely fly overnights on reserve. I'm not junior on reserve though. However, the reason I do this is because lines are absolutely atrocious. I don't know why anyone who lives local would bid a 4 on 2 off line when you can make it through an entire month on reserve without doing a single 4 day. ( And pick up 200% OT on off days if you choose to do that).

TL;DR I bid reserve, pick up OT, reduce to 8 days off. Avoid overnights on reserve, sleep at home in my own bed 20+ nights a month. Lines are horrible, 4 on 2 off unless you're really senior. Best way to increase QOL here when the company won't do anything to help improve it which is sad.

Envoy still has the leather jacket.

Is that how it is for all of the WO?

I know (first hand) of a Senior AA Captain who got benched for a month because he did not have his hat on.

Really? Hats are optional at American.

I guess they were not back then.. this was decades ago.

Totally relevant.

How many hours a month are you blocking?

What's the fleet plan for PDT? How many 145's are they getting?

That senior captain lied, or he was refering to something he heard at another carrier. Back in the old days of $350,000-$400,000/yr senior captains, probable. That generation is long gone.

Takes a serious "incident" to get an old geezer captain benched while its under review.