Hello,

Is it possible when in reserve to join two blocks of six days off over two months? I got a CJO recently, awaiting class date.

Once you hold a line, how easy is it to manage your roster and get 10+off in a row. I am trying to understand what is possible to do with bidding/roster/ swapping related to days off as a junior line holder. Thanks

 

Almost impossible on a narrow body, and somewhat possible on occasion in a wide body fleet.

Same as above.

 

Roster? 😁 WB guarantees 6 in a row so it’s possible. It’s more likely if you go NB, hold a line and try bid check airman trips for the drop or move your trips around. Anything is possible with seniority. Guessing you want to go across the pond on days off?

 

It depends on the fleet/base a little bit also. the 737/320 fleets obviously have a lot of flying each day that transits hubs and are far more exposed to the potential for delays/enroute sick/crew timeouts which results in having to re-crew. So on those fleets if the schedulers have enough reserves to cover the already known open flying and enough to put on short calls and can still build field standbys then they will. For the 756 and widebody SC/FSB seems to be more of a tool for covering the FRMS stuff (ultra long range where any delay can lead to it cancelling if it can’t be re-crewed or a big international bank where hiccups create issues. SC are a fact of life across all bases and fleets while the FSB seems to be more prevalent in bases/fleets with the issues above. Just my unscientific observations. I’ll close with I saw more FSB as west coast 737 reserve and I haven’t seen any FSB so far west coast 756. Of course SC appear out of thin air on both.

 

How many days off do reserve get in a 30 day bid month?

 

12 days off for a 30 day bid month, 13 for the other months.

 

Thanks for the tip. So you can chose when those 6 in a row in the month? Yes I like, long stretch of days off to travel.

 

Yes, you can request your days off, but they are dependent on your seniority. So unless you are a senior reserve you may not get them.

 

Quickly -- just wondering what kind of lag people have experienced between their in-person interview and notification of CJO or TBNT? Thanks...

 

I had my CJO within 36 hours of my in person interview (on a Monday) but I think United says up to a week or so. The TBNTs went out about Thursday-ish (3-ish days). Y Time MV.