GoodJet

On reserve at SWA can you pick up open flying on your days off?

Profane Kahuna

In theory yes, but in reality it is very difficult because of the way they build the buffers for your future block time.

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GoodJet

Thank you

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Proximity

It’s okay when there is plenty of open time.

Reason being your block liability reduces after each reserve duty period is complete. Since you’ll never actually block the amount buffered, you become more legal as the month progresses.

Issue is in month line February, where most open time if being scarfed up straight, especially during the weekdays when a new hire is off. And TTGA is picked through. So by the time you become legal you can’t anything.

Sometime a better play for non commuters one reserve is to pick up additional reserve from open time. It’s always less competitive to bid them, and if your MTD is already high you have a good chance of not being used during the week in a slow month.

Unfortunately, the company can remove reserve from open time in January and February. Big give away a few contracts ago and wasn’t rectified this time around.

hoover

get them from trip trade give away as soon as it opens. Snag a few day trips that pay well. That's what I did on reserve. People give away day trips that pay 9 etc because they try and clear their board. Those will be better than anything a NH can get via open time. You can usually get 2-3 day trips and stay under buffers

Smooth at FL450

Yes. reserve blocks or pairings. Your choice. SWA doesn't limit what you can do just because you're on reserve.

GoodJet

Must be nice...

flyguy81

yes. I’m usually legal to pick up 2-3 days OT. Could do more but I’m lazy and don’t want to be on the hook for that many days a month. I avg 120-130 a month on rsv with 2-3 days of pick ups from TTGA and letting sked doing their thing.

RJSAviator76

It is.

Something else, we can also trade pairings between reserves and line holders too and across bases. So if I'm LAX reserve and want to trade a LAS lineholder for his trip, we can do that too. I don't know why most if not all legacies don't allow trades between lineholders and reserves.

5tools

What? You mean the language is weak in this contract? Here's my surprised face?