Great, here we go again.... I agree the Bloch award was not dispersed evenly. As a February 2005 Mesaba hire I was downgraded on 13-02 for 6 weeks. My sim partner was Pinacle and hired 3 months after me. Yet he is 280 numbers senior to me. Got me angry every sim session. Trying to accept the fact is hard sometimes, but in the end I try to remember what's done is done. I or we can't undo it. We need to look outside Endeavor to get away from it.

How long are you on call if you sit ready reserve?

LOL! You've seen the light, well done sir!

8 Hours. 0600-1400 or 1230-2030. There's also an evening shift, but I can't remember the exact times. I think 1800-2200, but someone please correct me if I am wrong.

You can say that again!

According to him, they were going to be gone with the Saabs so should have been stapled accordingly

Do they actually fly the ready reserves? Or is it more of, like a time my FO got sick at the last minute and we cancelled, "we can't use our ready reserve because then we won't have one if we need one"

P3 (late night shift) is from 1845 to 0000.

More like picking up other regionals' flying last minute. Most of my reserve time has been spent covering someone else's flying. I noticed we've been doing a lot of canceled SKW flights lately.

I used to sit my airport Reserve @ the house or the gym knowing i'd never get used.

I can't imagine most folks average 15 days off as line holders as was mentioned a few pages back, unless things have changed significantly. I know I only saw 15 days off twice in the 9 years that I was there, but Ken probably has more accurate line averages if he still does PBS work. Min (12) days off used to go pretty high up the list to meet staffing needs.

And you would think you'd fly more than 50 a month on ready reserve, say in DTW? I live 5 miles from DTW and will try to bid DTW 200 and I'm taking a 11k paycut to come here next month because I'm only flying about 20-25 hours a month at my current job flying a DC9.