SkyWest has a bucket system. Seniority kind of goes out the window because if there is a 2 day trip and the only guy in the 2 day bucket is a lifer he will do the trip even if there are 10 junior guys in the 3 day bucket.
Well, I'm proabably in the top third of the brasilia captains and am based in Santa Barbara. I bid reserve thinking I could hid out and have a light month. Well, I'm on day 2 of 5 and hello from Sun Valley, Idaho.
Sounds similar. Reserves are getting abused right now so I can not imagine many senior are bidding it unless it is for days off. There is a 12 hour call out that is nice and we have an aggressive line improvement for reserves where they can pick up trips 12-24 hours prior. Min day off 11or12 depending on how many days in the month. We have floating reserve lines which give you 14 days off. Our reserves got a lot of improvements in our last LOA. I would still rather be a line holder.
At XJT, any open time being picked up for the rest of June, at all bases in either seat, is being paid at time and a half. No way they'd pull that if our reserves were sitting at home not being used.
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