No no. We don't have "sit at the airport for 12 hours 18 days a month" crap

What I mean is, company makes a pairing. Den-slc and back

About 2.5 to 3 hours block. Great! If you bid for that as a lineholders, you get mdg aka 4:12

If you get assigned it as a reserve, no 4:12.


Even if it's the exact pairing. They'll make something up.

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They do put them on the list before class start. They also assign them all the CBT's before class. I know of one personally that was on the list a month before he started class.

You will get paid 75.36 hours minimum for being on reserve. If you fly a 6 hour trip, that will be part of the 75.36 hours. If you fly a round trip for say 2 hours, then sit ready reserve for 4 hours (paid 2 for 1) and you will have 4 hours go towards the 75.36 hours. If you fly more than 75.36 hours, they will go back and pay you 4.12 for every day you were on reserve but not used. Or on days where you only flew 2 or 3 hours, you will get paid the difference up to 4.12. So basically every reserve day will be paid at 4.12 But here's the catch, when reserves had 19 days, most of the time they would squeak in and get it by a couple minutes. When the company dropped it to 18 days, that makes it that much harder to get over the 75.36. Reserve guys tried to point this out last pay package, but were ignored by people who either haven't sat reserve or haven't flown the line in 8 years.

Where you get hosed on reserve (and line holders for that matter) is that you will fly a round trip then have a 3 or 4 hour sit. These pay you nothing. So you will get sent to another base to sit reserve (because they sent a reserve out from that base to your domicile earlier in the morning) and have you do a RT, then schedule your deadhead for 3 hours later. Between driving to the airport from your house, deadhead, flying and waiting for your deadhead back, you will be sitting around a 14 hour duty day. If you feel too tired to drive home, don't worry. It is legal. Not safe or ethical by any means, but legal.

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...trying to catch a ride on flight 5106 sfo-ont 1jul16 at 1546. anyone kind enough to check if any united or Skywest employee listed for the JS? thanks!

I see oversold by 2, a PS and a nonrev (not skywest, can't tell if pilot or not)

Or......start a 9-9 RAP to be released at 1415 in to rest and have a 0015 trip assigned, that has you fly until 0400. With 10 hours rest, and back again.
Legal, but not safe......I will be dosing up on 5 hour Energy "fo sho" tonight and tomorrow.

JBone

Well I don't know what to tell ya. Generally you will see them pop up a week or 2 after class starts. I wasn't added to the list until about halfway through week 2. Typically they show up at the bottom of the list, and are integrated into the proper order several days later.

thanks for checking, running to the gate now. if not, two other flights available

You know you can refuse that right?


Read the reserve guide.

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Mhmm and this is exactly why they try to pull this off, since they know half the time no one understands the protections in place...