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They don't tell you where to sleep but you have to be able to report to the lounge in 2 hours on reserve.

Just a side note—also former corporate guy here—you do have the ability to give away reserve blocks and/or trade a block for a trip in TTGA (trip trade/give away).

I was hired just over two years ago and had a decent amount of success immediately putting every reserve block up for giveaway AND trade with the remarks “trade for any PM trip.”

Many times, I ended up with either somebody picking up my reserve block (which allowed me then to pick up a giveaway trip) or getting a trip in trade.

In both cases, once I ended up with a trip, I was able to trade that trip in ELITT, or again in TTGA.

Or, if my block was picked up I was able to bid on open time at straight pay (which pays a newhire at second year rates).

I was a commuter on reserve, and having even a crappy trip (AM or PM) traded gave me some leverage on my schedule.

Yes, it didn’t always work.

Yes, we have many more pilots on property now than two years ago, and it is harder to give away.

But! If you don’t try, it won’t happen.

Look on the bright side! Compared to corporate “on call 24/7” life, once your reserve trip is done, you don’t have to clean/stock/fuel/make the schedule/negotiate training contracts/arrange catering/rental cars/submit expense receipts/defend your $30 lunch after dropping off 1 pax with an $800 ramp fee and $4000 in fuel plus $2500 deicing fees, etc.

You just...go home.

So how long would I be on reserve in Orlando. Is there a way to see hire date of the most junior FO at MCO domicile?

The plug FO in MCO is an Oct 17 hire. Approximately six months to get off Reserve and into a blank line, which may or may not have some reserve blocks included in it.

At6d thanks for the info. I think the scheduling tricks of the trade are going to be one of the more difficult things to learn lol!

March vacancy award has an early 2014 hire being awarded ATL. As far as I know, that’s the first non-AirTran FO awarded ATL since bids opened for AT guys (a few OSW guys snuck in on the initial captain bids prior to AirTran upgrades).
There are definitely some outliers like guys waiting for a line or better seniority, but as long as ATL continues to grow, I predict it will stabilize with a much lower time to hold it within a year or so like Orlando has done.

Looks like a bunch of new hires got PHX for March. That hasn’t happened in a while.

Yeah, a whole class it looks like.

In our specific class 05DEC17 we got split into 4 groups

1 HOU
4 LAS
5 OAK
18 PHX

We were the middle of 3 new hire classes for the Mar bid