Reserve Periods: Informal Survey

[ReverseSensing]

Please share the home reserve availability period guidelines at your airline.

QX has (AM) 0430-1830 and (PM) 1030-2400.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Soverytired]

Home reserve? -or- "Oh, yeah. . . now I remember why I hate this place . . "

No such thing as home reserve at Mesa.

All reserves are either flying, or assigned ready reserve (sit at the airport in uniform for 12 hours a day).


And no, I'm NOT KIDDING.

Scheduled airport ready reserve shifts at a typical large domicile:

0500-1700
0700-1900
1000-2200
1100-2300

 

["GO AROUND"]

ASA has reserves that start times from 5am to 7pm on the hour. They run for 15 hrs or midnight whichever is less.

 

[EMB Skillz]

It must suck to be on reserve. I had a hard line straight out of IOE, I expect the same after upgrade training. I don't do the "reserve" thing.

--SKILLZ

 

[chrisdahut24]

CHQ has 12 hour callouts - default is 4am to 4pm, but can be modified during the month, as need be, with 24 hours notice.

No ready/hot reserve for pilots. All at home.

 

[chrisdahut24]

It must suck to be on reserve. I had a hard line straight out of IOE, I expect the same after upgrade training. I don't do the "reserve" thing.

--SKILLZ

Emb-skillz, you are a complete tool and d0uche. Please go back to pimping your auto with phat rimz and leave the message board alone.

 

[DrewBlows]

Comair

A1 – 0001 – 1401
A2 – 0330 – 1730
A3 – 0600 – 2000
A4 – 0800 – 2200
A5 – 1000 – 2400
A6 – 1200 – 2400
A7 – 1800 – 2400

The "A#" is just the code that scheduling uses to refer to the window. Callout is 1.5 hours and duty limits are based on when your duty starts (the earlier the start the shorter the max duty period). There is ready reserve but I'm not familiar with the ready rules as I have only had to do it once (50 seat guys seem to get ready reserve a lot). There is a limit as to how many ready periods one can have per month and how many hours one can sit at a time. If you are given an assignment you don't have to answer your phone anymore. Assignments are made on a from the junior pilot on up, but if you want to fly you can bid to fly and take priority over the junior pilots.

I should be a reserve expert seeing as it's all I know and likely all I will know for a long time. Overall, my reserve experience has been good, I fly a lot, have rarely gotten a minimum callout or ready reserve, and am usually able to commute the same day on one end of a reserve period. The other side is that I rarely get a weekend off and we have soft days off that the company can move around if they need (doesn't happen often, but it's annoying when they do). This is just my experience, I'm guessing other guys have had the opposite experience.

 

[DrewBlows]

CHQ has 12 hour callouts - default is 4am to 4pm, but can be modified during the month, as need be, with 24 hours notice.

No ready/hot reserve for pilots. All at home.

That's pretty cool. How do they cover short notice sick calls, duty time issues, et cetera?

 

[flyer172r]

TSA is 14 hours, usually starting at 5, 6, or 10 am. If you have the real early morning home reserve and you wake up on your own (ie, you sleep in and don't get woken up by the phone), there's about a 98% chance you won't get called for anything that day.

 

[doug_or]

PDT is 14 hours starting @ 5am (so normal is 0500-1900). On call often adjusted to 0900, but they can use any random arse time they like. Alterntaing between 0500 and 0900 is ideal as it gives you a 2 hour drink window every other night. Callout is 75 minutes standard, 90 at airports with bus to the employee parking lot and (I think) 2 hours @ LGA.

 

[Flyby1206]

At Eagle we have a 4am- and 10am- reserve period with a 2hr callout. The RAP (reserve availability period) goes all day until you arent legal anymore. We also have 3 airport ready reserve shifts that go roughly 5am-1pm, 11am-7pm, 2pm-10pm

 

[DASHDRIVER]

AWAC 2 hour call out, shifts start at 4am and are stagared out till about 11 am. 14 hr shifts. Usually two ready reserve line per month per base. Long call also available at a 48 hr call out.

 

[Chicken Taco]

CHQ has 12 hour callouts - default is 4am to 4pm, but can be modified during the month, as need be, with 24 hours notice.

No ready/hot reserve for pilots. All at home.

Add to that reserves have 11 off, and they are HARD DAYS in groups of 2 with one group of 3.

Callout is 90 minutes, and once assigned you are not on call until the show time that day. A few bases have 12-12 reserves as well, but normally all 3-3 or 4-4 and then the shifts can be modified by sched in advance..

..CT

 

[Mr Wu]

Colgan has 0400-1600, 1100-2300 and the ever popular RSV which is "Who the FUQ knows?"

 

[nev-air mind]

Please share the home reserve availability period guidelines at your airline.

QX has (AM) 0430-1830 and (PM) 1030-2400.

Thanks for sharing.

Can you also share @ how long reserve time is running at your airlines right now?

 

[wmuflyguy]

Comair

A1 – 0001 – 1401
A2 – 0330 – 1730
A3 – 0600 – 2000
A4 – 0800 – 2200
A5 – 1000 – 2400
A6 – 1200 – 2400
A7 – 1800 – 2400

The "A#" is just the code that scheduling uses to refer to the window. Callout is 1.5 hours and duty limits are based on when your duty starts (the earlier the start the shorter the max duty period). There is ready reserve but I'm not familiar with the ready rules as I have only had to do it once (50 seat guys seem to get ready reserve a lot). There is a limit as to how many ready periods one can have per month and how many hours one can sit at a time. If you are given an assignment you don't have to answer your phone anymore. Assignments are made on a from the junior pilot on up, but if you want to fly you can bid to fly and take priority over the junior pilots.

I should be a reserve expert seeing as it's all I know and likely all I will know for a long time. Overall, my reserve experience has been good, I fly a lot, have rarely gotten a minimum callout or ready reserve, and am usually able to commute the same day on one end of a reserve period. The other side is that I rarely get a weekend off and we have soft days off that the company can move around if they need (doesn't happen often, but it's annoying when they do). This is just my experience, I'm guessing other guys have had the opposite experience.

Max of 6 Ready reserves a month. Can not have more than 2 in a row.

Ready reserves are 6 hours and are paid a min 4 hours and 20 mins or whatever you fly if it is greater.

It isn;t too bad, I get the Jepp reviews done and update the logbook while i'm sitting around ops.

I averaged 60 hours a month flight time in CVG and about 45 in GSO.

 

["GO AROUND"]

Right now ASA is approx. 6 mnths for FO's.

 

[AlphaSierra01]

Right now ASA is approx. 6 mnths for FO's.

Is that ready reserve at the airport or are you at home?

 

[ReverseSensing]

Can you also share @ how long reserve time is running at your airlines right now?

About a year, but it's reducing my life expectancy by a decade.

If I had known this career was probably going to make me die young, I would have just taken up hard-drinking, druggin', gamblin' and unprotected sex with skanky strangers.

 

[Leroy Smith]

Is that ready reserve at the airport or are you at home?

2 hour callout.