Regionals to Reserves
 

How does it work at a regional when someone decides to join the Army Reserves or one of the other reserve branches and they're currently employed at a regional?

I understand they have to give you your job back with your seniority number when youre done with basic or if you were deployed but how would you go about mixing your pairing with the one weekend a month thing? I wondered if you had to do those on your days off or are you excused from flying a weekend a month to goto drills if the weekend falls on your line.

Any flying, sitting reserve, or any other airline duty will be removed from your line for military leave. It doesn't matter whether it's a drill weekend or a year long deployment, voluntary or involuntary. The airline likely won't pay you for any dropped time. I don't know of any airline that does, although some companies do. All companies, however, are required to accommodate your military schedule. I try to give my airline as much notice as possible, although I have had to drop short notice mil leave before (1 day notice). Bottom line, it's a pretty easy to do, but don't be "that guy" that abuses it.

If you have PBS, they will typically block off your mil days (plus travel/rest days if needed, they usually are) as pre-assigned leave. Kind of like a training pre-assignment. You then bid normally and PBS works around those days.

If you have hard lines, you probably bid normally and then they just cover any conflicting trips for you.

For last-minute stuff that comes up after the bid award, they simply cover the flying for you. If they don't like it, they cannot harass you or even question you...their ONLY legal recourse is to contact your commanding officer, and assuming that he approved your military duty periods in the first place, he should always back you up.

Unless you work at a real bottom-feeder, you will not have any company issues with mil leave...most airlines are pretty good about it.

Regionals to Reserves
 

I've had very good experiences getting time off at both the regional and major level. In both cases, I loss pay for MIL leave, so I attempt to bid for that time off.