One good side to being on a reserve is that you get to see your child grow right?

 

This contractually can not happen on the ERJ side. Day for day can only be denied within 12 hours if there are no reserves to cover an earlier or later show time. You can move days via bad day worse day trading. If the days you are trading into have worse coverage than the days you are on, they have to approve it within 72 hours. Reserves can also move on call days via this method.

 

Lol, good one. There are guys that tell me they have never attended their child's bday or been home for xmas. These people have been at Xjet for 12 years. Kind of sad. That's mostly self induced I think though.

As far as the trip variation it depends on the time of the year and how well the airline is staffed. I can't really comment on all aircraft and all bases. But ATL 700 as an FO the days of holding all 3 day pairings is dwindling. Once the bottom of the credit window gets around 88-90hrs there has to be a couple of high credit 4 days in your schedule to meet the window. Or you get a bunch of 2 days back to back and 3 days with day lines on one end with a very inconsistent schedule.

I had a schedule with all 3 days a few months ago. Was really nice but I new it wouldn't last. Took a while to get there though.

 

Oh you didn't hear. The new Expressjet makes it's OWN contract along the way. It's call grieve it or leave it. Enjoy ;-)

 

Quoted for MF'in truthiness.

So much of people's attempts to manage their career and the decisions they make is based on this one simple fact.

 

Except that as a reserve at ExpressJet, you'll spen 6 days each week at the airport either sitting ready reserve, or flying one round trip then waiting an hour to get released.

 

Please explain to someone who has never worked at 121.

You mean I will be sitting 6 out of 7 days a week at airport?
So I will be sitting in the airport 8 hours a day incase I need to fly 6 days per week?
Is this only for ASA side or LXJet or both?

Thanks

 

Yes, you understand correctly, except that on the LXJT side you'll sit 4 hours and get paid 4 hours and on the LASA side you'll sit 8 and get paid 4. But you will spend every scheduled reserve day working and even some off days. (Psst Eagle is offering a nice signing bonus).

 

SongMan,

While reserve isn't fun by any stretch, Captain Tony is being a bit of a drama queen. I'm on reserve and don't see myself getting off of it any time soon. My life isn't miserable by any stretch. Try to live in base, keep a good attitude and you'll be fine. There are reserve rules that limit the number of ready reserve days in a month. The part about getting day lines or bits an pieces of trips is true. You're a plug as a reservist to fill the gaps.

Reserve is what you make of it. If you want to be miserable and adversarial with scheduling, then you'll hate it. If you roll with it and just expect the unexpected all the time then it isn't so bad.

 

Being on reserve pretty much sucks wherever you work. ERJ reserve rules are much better than CRJ reserve rules. If you live in base, ERJ reserve isn't bad. Even commuting can make it less hellish.

The sad part is, before the UAL JCBA, the ERJ work rules were better than that of S-CAL.