Average days per month workerd at DL?
03-21-2023, 09:58 AM
#71
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Reserves fly up to ALV+15. If ALV is 78 then 15 days puts you over 18ish days on call 15ish days worked. If you get close to ALV, YS a trip that puts you just over. That puts you full for the month which makes the remaining on call days effectively off days. With all the unstacking, I don't think reserve goes senior much more than currently. I bid reserve ESN... and couldn't hold all the weekends off so I got a regular line that did.
03-21-2023, 10:30 AM
#72
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Reserves fly up to ALV+15. If ALV is 78 then 15 days puts you over 18ish days on call 15ish days worked. If you get close to ALV, YS a trip that puts you just over. That puts you full for the month which makes the remaining on call days effectively off days. With all the unstacking, I don't think reserve goes senior much more than currently. I bid reserve ESN... and couldn't hold all the weekends off so I got a regular line that did.
03-21-2023, 10:56 AM
#73
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I’ll add a data point.
ERB, never bud a line, live 1:15 from base,
6 years-1800 hrs block
300 block a year
25 block a month
Even with equal credit I’m around 50 a month
Reserve in base is the way, ask Pedro pascal
Edit: one year of COVID I didn’t fly for 9 months
There are multiple strategies to reduce one’s utilization on reserve, but ultimately they require you to be in a decently staffed category, and at least 15 -20 people junior to you.
I would certainly never categorize sitting at home on long all as work. That’s just stupid. Surfing is not work, gardening is not work, teenage kids is not wor……wait a minute
ERB, never bud a line, live 1:15 from base,
6 years-1800 hrs block
300 block a year
25 block a month
Even with equal credit I’m around 50 a month
Reserve in base is the way, ask Pedro pascal
Edit: one year of COVID I didn’t fly for 9 months
There are multiple strategies to reduce one’s utilization on reserve, but ultimately they require you to be in a decently staffed category, and at least 15 -20 people junior to you.
I would certainly never categorize sitting at home on long all as work. That’s just stupid. Surfing is not work, gardening is not work, teenage kids is not wor……wait a minute
03-21-2023, 11:26 AM
#74
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Just a data point: 2 young kids, live 1:20 from Kennedy. I always bid reserve. When I’m sitting short call from the grocery store, playground, gymnastics class, I personally, don’t consider it real work. My QOL is based on how much I am physically at home. Whether it’s an X day or unused SC day, it really makes no difference to me or my family. If I have to jet and leave suddenly it doesn’t really upset my life. Even in a fairly short staffed category I am generally away from my house for 10-12 days (unused SC, deadhead deviations on chopped up rotations help) Not bad. This is just my opinion on what “work” constitutes, in my specific life scenario, but I appreciate both arguments.
03-21-2023, 12:14 PM
#75
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Yeah, lots of straining at gnats here over days of work. Pre-month days off is only useful in planning commitments. Min will be 13/14 on reserve. But I find looking in arrears, and seeing how much time I spent being away as being the real world answer to "how much do you work?".
3-day trip, but Day 3 is a DH only day, and I deviate home on day 2? Thats 2 day to my family's POV. Didn't get used the entire month on reserve? My spouse will tell others I didn't work all month. Should I retort, "Excuse me, I worked 17 days of reserve!". That's location awareness, not necessarily work.
3-day trip, but Day 3 is a DH only day, and I deviate home on day 2? Thats 2 day to my family's POV. Didn't get used the entire month on reserve? My spouse will tell others I didn't work all month. Should I retort, "Excuse me, I worked 17 days of reserve!". That's location awareness, not necessarily work.
03-21-2023, 12:29 PM
#76
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Let's put it this way: try telling your buddies who are in an office all day + taking calls/emails all weekend, or guys working construction/maintenance/other manual work 9-5 that even though you were home all month and played with your kids every day and took them to/from school, played some golf, watched March Madness all afternoon, etc you had to "work"16 days last month because you were on call that whole time. See how hard they roll their eyes into the back of their head, if they don't outright hit you...
03-21-2023, 12:43 PM
#77
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But you're not talking to your non-airline buddies. You're talking to a SWA pilot who's wanting to compare two airlines. Just like the thread on annual salary, nobody cares about the annual take home from your side-gig. Include that you were on reserve for x days in your comment about "working y days this month" and nobody will question any of it.
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