fcoolaiddrinker

To maximize credit put all your vacation in 1 bid period and bid fdo. Take the vac payout in the vap. Let’s say that was two weeks or 70 credit. You’re now starting that bid period at 145 credit of which 63 is * 1.25. Fly as much as possible during the 12 days off. To do that it’s helpful to have the first 12 off.

Xdashdriver

That works...just be advised CS may deny open time pickups on days off as a reserve pilot, if it would make you illegal to fly on the reserve days. They're allowed to assign a hypothetical value of up 3 hours of block and 6 hours FDP for future reserve days in making that determination. Whether they do that or not is another question.

fcoolaiddrinker

due to this it’s helpful to have a few days off going into fdo. The max block they could possibly assign would be 54. Duty is not a problem as you’re starting long call.

aceinthesky1

Can someone advise on what Reserve schedules look like as well as when you are holding a line?
How many are new hires spending on reserve?

160to4

Could anyone with recent experience recommend a good commuter hotel in PHX, and price? Thank you much!

PositiveRate20

Reserve us generally 18 on and 12 off. Min guarantee of 75 hours. Long call is a 12 hour report and short call is a 2 hour report. If available, long call gets called first. If you don’t want to fly, it seems the late short call slot (D block) is the way to go.

Generally, about 75% of a base’s schedules are fixed lines and approx 25% are reserve lines. They’ll usually do a higher reserve percentage in a newer base for a few months. You want to be top 75% in base to be a consistent line holder.

brocklee9000

If you’re west coast based though, can you reasonably expect D reserve to get used a lot due to redeyes? This is the first month I’m eligible to bid, so aside from waiting to see when/how they schedule IOE, I’m bidding for LAS in March and then April will be PHX (which is home for me). Any tips for more west coast/redeye bidding? Especially expecting to be reserve for a while?

nochopforboxes

D gets used quite a bit in LAS.

spooldup

D is probably the least used on east coast and most used on west coast. Only reason I never bid for it is because when you do get called, youre doing really crappy redeyes every single time.

brocklee9000

That’s what I figured. I haven’t had a chance to poke around nav blue quite yet but will in a couple days. Haven’t looked at March pairings yet but based on past trends. PHX (and I think LAS) had plenty of locals with 5am reports. Probably go real senior anyway but that’s not my thing. Also plenty of 11pm reports for the ol’ redeye 2 day. Some stuff in the middle but not as much. Seems like a D reserve would be getting plenty of use on those redeyes. But I guess even with a RAP starting at noon, you’re not necessarily safe from those if the trip is scheduled to end in your 16hr RAP (ie 4am home time, which I feel like I saw trips getting to Florida just before 6am which would be 4am home time).

Anyway I knew what I was getting into, just wanted to check my hunch that late reserve could get used a lot. Especially since every new hire seems to be out west lately.