Then that is base and time of year specific. Seniority means nothing when you have less hours for the month than everybody else in your bucket.

Eventually Seniority means almost nothing and you can’t hide forever come the 2nd half of the month.

Good friend with TWA, NB senior captain, used to bid SC reserve in June, every two years. Painted his house siding, then two years later did the window trim. Only once did he get called. Out and back. Home for dinner. Otherwise he was painting. Better than taking vacation.

It blows my mind reserve isn’t top of the list senior. mostly 2-day trips. Living in base 20 plus nights in your own bed usually.

AA has "sick if needed" for reserves. You can call in "sick if needed". If you are on reserve and you were not going to be used, it doesn't cost you anything. If they call you, then your sick time starts.

Here's the real trick...if they call you for a trip the next day, you can call in "not sick" the next morning and you are back on reserve and it doesn't cost you any sick time.

Yup. Use 1 week of vacation and a couple sick calls and you can take most of the month off, if not all of it.

You'll be to a line within 6-9 months...tops. Better QoL is the equipment you don't have to commute to.

Fastest line? 73s to LGA.

I see lots of senior playing the 3 day reserve block with 1700 RAP. Unless you get called for a red eye that night, you're not much use to scheduling for your whole block beyond a 2 day trip. Lots of low GTD reserves for the month.

Put this on a wall and frame it.

How long is the wait to get to ORD out of training?