ERJ Reserve Flying
 

Wondering what the current reserve timelines are for the ERJ and about how much flying is everyone doing while on reserve? I'm hearing stories that some folks are holding a line after 2-3 months and other stories where people are 6-7 months in and still in reserve with 0 hours of flying per month. Just trying to set expectation management.

It varies by month and base of course. I just hit my 1 year mark and since I’m a picky bidder I got long call. If I didn’t bid long call in layer 7 probably would have gotten a line? Personal situation due to traffic I can’t get AM reserve. I’m 65% in base. Bids to layer 6 went to 70%. It worked for December and January got a line. Not for February.

So long story short. It depends on a lot of factors.


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Your going to sit reserve for awhile. Right now, most junior reserve guys are flying about 1-7 days per month. Long call might be getting more than that. I flew 5 days in January, 4 days in December and 1 day in November. The 1 day in November was flying i picked up on a day off. That is about par with the rest of the recent new hires.

Had to factor in How 42 new aircraft in 9 months will effect reserve time... but thats the game of Airline flying. Get use to it...

Is this holding true for all bases? I'm retiring military and live in SAN. While the SAN base for OO is attractive, I would like to be flying also.... Thanks for the help!

You can select “call first” and you can probably fly more than I did. Because I enjoy getting paid to not come into work.

If you live in base and can drive to work in under 2 hrs it’s really not bad.

I prefer long call so I can plan on a day of riding bikes or sailing but to each their own I guess.


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San is going to see some more growth so likely short reserve for the next while.

Same question for CRJ in ATL?

You will fly. And fly. and Fly.

Experience the thrill of pushing the limits of maximum monthly block.

How long to hold LAX and what are reserve times looking like at mo?

There hasnt been much movement into LAX for awhile. Seems stagnant. San Diego is a few months wait at most as of now to get into. As others have said, flying is growing so maybe new hires will get it right away...Maybe. For now, it’s BOI or ORD initially.

Does anyone know how long it’s taking to hold long call reserve out of ORD??

How is the reserve life of a junior captain on the CRJ in Atlanta or Detroit? Does skywest have airport standby?

Yes. They usually add 1-3hrs after a trip if its middle of the day.

That seems sort of like a raw deal. Any last day protections?

They only add it if you are a reserve. And airport ready counts towards breaking guarantee. There is a possibility that you can be assigned airport ready for 8 hours, but it’s not that common. It has happened though.

I’m curious, protections from what?

Saying having to sit 1-3 hours of ready after finishing a trip on your last day.

If you are awarded an entire pairing, they don’t put you on ready reserve (at least they’re not supposed to). If you get awarded a partial pairing, well...

You mean half of it counts towards breaking guarantee?

Yes
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ERJ TDT? vs SEA RSV
 

How does TDT work? A little background, I'm SEA based with a year seniority on AM RSV with "call first" turned on. January and February have been pretty slow months(less that 10hrs of flying) and it is only predicted to slow down some more in the upcoming months while PDX and other bases are expected to grow. If I put in for TDT to PDX,BOI,ORD, etc. What are the chances I get picked-up and then when could I come back to SEA or would I be stuck with no return date?
Thanks!!!

None---- you wouldn't get back to SEA for a very very very long time

Well that's not true at all. TDT is temporary by definition. The reality is, he will likely not get awarded TDT. There are plenty of people with permanent transfer requests in that TDT will likely not be utilized.

Okay, thanks.

By May ya’ll will be enjoying LGA so much you’ll wish you were on reserve not being used...

Is that all the new airplanes will be used for??

I’m pretty sure ORD is just a holding base for the DL 175 before LGA opens.

Doubt they will open a NYC base for awhile.. maybe after the flying fully matures. They will just cre it with ORD ect like they did LAX/SFO for years...