Is reserve still a choice???
#21
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2013
Posts: 2,159
Agreed.
Maybe ALPA should too. I recall more than one rep saying "don't worry about it, you'll be off reserve real soon." "If you're not on reserve real soon, then it was your choice, so don't whine about it."
Maybe ALPA should too. I recall more than one rep saying "don't worry about it, you'll be off reserve real soon." "If you're not on reserve real soon, then it was your choice, so don't whine about it."
#24
unless you have only been here 1-3 years, and your base moves like molasses. I guess it’s my CHOICE to not move to one of the coasts.....just like it was my CHOICE to work here.....like it was my CHOICE to work in aviation at all. You can play that game as far as you’d like.....but circumstances don’t always allow for choices like you say. I live in Houston, and it’s been impossible to get here since I was hired. Granted.....it’s all about to be a moot point, and I’d MUCH rather commute to reserve than be furloughed. So all the whining about being on reserve falls on deaf ears to the MANY who are about to have no job at all.
#26
While most of the Bay Area is cost prohibitive, there are areas within a 90 mile radius that are comparable ($$$) with the rest of our hubs, except maybe IAH. The juniority of SFO has allowed many like myself the opportunity to upgrade and help offset the increase in cost of living. I get the feeling I’m ahead ($$$) month after month on rsv as a NB capt as opposed to being a NB Copilot in a senior domicile with a lower cost of living.
Plus not having to shovel snow, deal with mosquitoes or hurricanes, or New Yorkers in itself is a gift that keeps on giving
#30
New Hire
Joined APC: Dec 2010
Posts: 3
Every holiday off, every weekend off, first choice of vacation, premium pay every month, and trip drops anytime =
100% control over quality of life.
Everytime I fly with a junior Captain who complains non-stop, I ask: “Can you hold narrowbody FO in base?
Answer: “um, oh, ahh”... reserve sucks”. Commuting sucks, etc, etc, etc.
I also hear wide-body FO’s in my base complaining about being on reserve and working every holiday...
I just shake my head, smile and keep my big secret that happiness in this business is seniority in BES, not upgrading or flying wide-bodies.
To answer your question:
reserve is a choice unless you’ve been hired in the past 2-years. You knew the seniority game before hired, knew the bases at United before you applied and yet you have “decided” to upgrade from the 737/320 BY CHOICE, unless of course you’ve been here less then 24-months, at which point you can bid from the new-hire assigned 756 fleet to a 737/320 FO position.
Long-story short: anyone here more than 24/ months and not in the 737/320 fleet is on reserve by choice.
(And yes, I would still be a senior line holder, but bid an SRL Line for April to avoid crap flying and re-assignments...again, by CHOICE!)
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