IronCityBlue
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I understand the 7 and 1 rule. I am on a domestic only aircraft (DC9) and I am currently on a 9 day stretch of Reserve days. As long as I have 24 hrs of rest in any 7 day period (whether at home or in the hotel) its legal. So I bid the maximum number of days I can and block my 11 days off as close as I can. It makes for some good quality of life issues if your a commuter. The scheduling committee should look into it.
I see what you're saying, but I'd be surprised if that happened here. Not to mention if it did, then scheduling could (read: would) just start extending reserves (junior man or whatever) 10 or 11 days and while some may want that I'd wager most would self release/sicka in a hurry if the company assigned them short call reserve for two weeks at a time.
With even telephone availability being considered duty, to schedule you for 24 hours off they would basically not be available for anything at least 30 hours at a stretch once per week, since they couldn't do anything with you that close to a mandatory 24 hour period off. So to answer your question, I don't see them doing that because they would have to give you, in effect, more days off (days of unavailability) while still giving you the minimum days off you already get. Increase cost of hiring more people to cover the same ammount of flying, multiplied by 2 fleet types and 4 bases.
Are your 11 days of rsv all long call, short call or a combo of both?