yes…………..filler…

 

Another option is to drive someplace 2 hours from AC and hang out for a bit. Chill in a Starbucks and sip coffee and watch Netflix, go to a park or a mall and walk around, etc. If they call you, you're in position, if not, go back home. Not ideal for R3, but later ones, yeah. Driving will just about always beat out air commuting.

 

would you say this holds true for driving to reserve vs flying to a line trip?

 

In my opinion yes, although that is highly dependent on how much the reserves are used.

 

There's a couple of DFW guys who do this. They drive within a couple of hours of the airport and hang out. If they get called for reserve, they go in for the trip. If not, they drive home after a certain amount of time. Doesn't seem fun.

 

correct. We have done it and a few still do. It sucks especially now that fuel is high

 

Looking to try to understand what my QOL is going to be like on reserve a little better… I have a class date in November.

I live an hour and 50min drive from base best case, some rare days can be 2:20-2:40. I guess I had understood the “3hr callout” to be 3hrs from the time they call to walking into the plane. Last few posts show that’s not quite it.

At my current job (135) we only have an hour reserve callout so I’ve been either going and sitting at my crashpad or driving halfway and sitting at a Starbucks for a few hours… was hoping to get away from that and also being able to drop the crashpad all together.

So apart from that, another post mentioned that reserve trips may end up being a single leg and deadhead back or just a turn. Does that hold true as well most of the time? The other thing I was trying to get away from at my current job was a “home every night” type of schedule since I don’t exactly live in base and it’s not worth driving home if I’m going to work (or be on reserve) the next day.

Obviously the money is better where I’m at now in the left seat, but I was hoping to temporarily trade that for a little better QOL.

 

Which domicile. Kind of crucial for answering as they all differ heavily.

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Remember, you also have a 15 minute call back once they call you for an assignment.

So you are home on red alert, uniform hanging in the car. Phone rings, scheduling, you dont answer. 15 minute clock starts. You check Flica, see what time youre tagged, and either hit the road right then or take a breath and plan your drive. Just remember to call them back within 15 (they will continue to blow your phone up during that 15 minutes). So you technically have 3:15 from phone call to ready to depart.

Plan on working a lot as a reserve FO here at NK. Attrition isnt stopping anytime soon so I expect reserve FOs to continue to be used an abused. You finish a trip, call to check out, back on another trip...so I think you will stay busy. And yes, some assignments will be a turn and a DH back, some a 4 day, and everything in between. You're reserve, you are there for the abusing until we can change some of these reserve rules in the next CBA.

 

this is bad advice and bad strategy.