Mesaba schedules
 

How are the reserve schedules typically laid out? 5on/2off, a lot of single days off, etc? Do they let you commute in on your first day on and release you early enough on your last day to get home? If there is anyway to get a copy of your lines for a month that would be great too. Thanks

Yes, but I can only speak for the 200 though.

You are expected to be there at your report time and on call until your release time. Traveling to/from your base during your scheduled duty time is not advisable. You might get away with it, but the day you get stuck somewhere is when you get called. If you are within a couple hours of your release time and the schedulers are in a good mood with a lot of reserves in waiting, you might be able to get released early, but don't count on it as a regular thing. It doesn't hurt to ask though if you're itching for a beer.

in msp on the 900 it seems to be 5 on 3 off (3x) and 5 on 2 off (1x) every month, and i usually dont have a problem getting released early for the last flight home, since i have made it pretty clear that i commute. The worst that i have gotten was crew scheduling let me list and get a boarding pass and then call right before i get on the aircraft (in this case they let me go). most of the time if you commute, plan on coming out the day before. I was in mem for awhile and used the late Fedex flights. I left home at 8pm, and got into MEM at 2am, and started reserve at 6am.

I am with Eagle interested in Mesaba. How much open time flying is available to reserve's? Is there a lot of airport standby? or is it "at home on call? Is it a 2 hour call out?

Why would you want to make a lateral move right now during these times??:rolleyes:

You cannot bid for open time while on a reserve schedule. What you get rarely ever appears on open time. During the last year, my low month has been 4hrs, high 50hrs. 1.5hr callout, or you can get ready reserve which for AM is 525am to 125pm - you must be at the airport. Sometimes you get a RR several times a month, sometimes never.

Actually technically you can reduce yourself to 10 days off from 11. So if there was a reserve day or a day trip in open time you could grab that...but that is rare.

actually ready reserve times are not set and often vary. I've never had it start/end on a 25th minute, usaually on the hour, sometimes on the half hour but here is the different periods I have sat:

AM: 5-1, 6-2, 7-3
PM: 1-9, 2-10, 3-11

Also I've had all of these start/end on the 1/2 hour after the hour listed above

It all depends on what they need. Also I've never broken 10 hours on straight reserve.

Flylow is probably sitting in DTW. They have the AM show an hour before the first MEM deadhead departure so if they end up short there they can send us there. DTW has been overstaffed and MEM understaffed on the 900 all year. SO in order to give themselves an extra body for MEM they put DTW ready reserves on 3+hours before the first actual departure so they can deadhead you to MEM if needed since the next flight after the 6:25ish is at about noon to MEM out of DTW.

Whats the earliest they can use us on RR? Lets say your RR shift is from 6-2, can they have you get on a flight at 610 or 620? How long do they give you to get to the gate?