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Originally Posted by PilotJ3
How is the reserve sistem in F9. I'm thinking to make F9 or B6 my last stop. I really don't need to go to a legacy. Just trying to take make the best informed decision.
I will be visiting both places in the upcoming job fairs.
Simply put you paper bid for one of 5 shifts
A 0400-1430
B 0800-1830
C 1200-2230
D 1700-2400
E 1900-0200
In my experience no one shift goes necessarily jr or sr. Weekends off seem to be what goes senior.
The blocks of RSV days usually consist of a mix of 4 and 5 day blocks.
On any given day you will be organized into groups (buckets) of days of availability with other pilots in your same shift.
They call out the pilot who flew least recently (first-in-first-out) in the bucket with the days of availability matching the open trip. If there are no pilots in the bucket that matches the days of the trip, they will go up to the next bucket.
For example if 2 day comes open. They have no 2 day guys available so they will go up and call the 'first in' 3 day bucket guy.
2 hour call out.
If you want you can peruse open-time and 'aggressive bid' a trip that you might like to fly. Doesn't have to match your bucket, but generally has to fit your shift, unless no-one else bids it, and if they have coverage they might award it to you. This is is a seniority based bid that runs from 1000 to 1330 everyday for the NEXT day's trip starts.
12 days off per month.
I come from a seniority based call me first/ call me last system, and also did a lowest credit - first out system for awhile. I'm still getting used to Frontier's but I think it is a decent system. I like how you can do a quick turn and be put back to the back of the list. The credit one drove me crazy.
Swapping reserve days in FLICA is a mixed bag. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it doesn't.
You can bid Relief lines which are RSV lines that can be converted into a real line in a secondary bid function. But only if you want. If none look appealing to you, you can allow it to stay a RSV line.
As a regular RSV (non relief) holder, you can sometimes still bid in a yet 'nother bid function for "unawarded relief lines"
RSV at frontier generally goes JR. But this last bid surprised me. There were a surprising number of pretty senior pilots bidding RSV. Possibly for the days off, or because they thought staffing was such that they wouldn't fly much, not sure.
When you finish an assignment you have to call in to scheduling...
•If they have something on your schedule (theoretically put there before you landed) you're obligated to go back out, but in this instance, unless they're tapped out of any other reserves, they have to release you as soon as the trip returns to base, and can only make you do one more overnight.
• If they have nothing on your schedule when you call they are obligated to release you to your rest/days off. In my last year I've been nabbed probably 1 out of 10 times. That said we're in hiring mode. I know in the past when they were short, or sometimes even now on the CA side, it is much more likely to happen.
NO hot/ready reserve! Yes I made it to a Major! Whew!
Thats pretty much it in a big nutshell. There are contract provisions, too much to go into here, that spell out when they need to release you by, or if when they can extend you etc.
Hope this helps.