Reserve
10-02-2019, 12:06 PM
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Reserve
So probably a dumb question, but how does 'reserve' work coming out of training prior to holding a line?
After that, do you bid reserve while holding a line? Why would someone do/not do that?
Thanks!
After that, do you bid reserve while holding a line? Why would someone do/not do that?
Thanks!
10-02-2019, 01:26 PM
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Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2018
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Reserve is almost always not by choice. You can bid reserve anytime you want, but here, you don’t want it. There is no real advantage to bidding reserve on purpose at Republic due to the way we call reserves. If it was seniority based calling, then maybe, but CS tends to call whoever their finger lands on with very little explanation as to why. It’s supposed to be done a certain way via contract, but it’s tribal knowledge that they don’t really follow directions very well. Reserve is an unfortunate rite of passage...grin and bear it until you get lucky to get a line.
10-02-2019, 05:07 PM
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Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2019
Posts: 327
Reserve is almost always not by choice. You can bid reserve anytime you want, but here, you don’t want it. There is no real advantage to bidding reserve on purpose at Republic due to the way we call reserves. If it was seniority based calling, then maybe, but CS tends to call whoever their finger lands on with very little explanation as to why. It’s supposed to be done a certain way via contract, but it’s tribal knowledge that they don’t really follow directions very well. Reserve is an unfortunate rite of passage...grin and bear it until you get lucky to get a line.
10-03-2019, 06:56 AM
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Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2017
Position: ERJ-170
Posts: 528
Reserve is almost always not by choice. You can bid reserve anytime you want, but here, you don’t want it. There is no real advantage to bidding reserve on purpose at Republic due to the way we call reserves. If it was seniority based calling, then maybe, but CS tends to call whoever their finger lands on with very little explanation as to why. It’s supposed to be done a certain way via contract, but it’s tribal knowledge that they don’t really follow directions very well. Reserve is an unfortunate rite of passage...grin and bear it until you get lucky to get a line.
You can also do this to take all (most) the weekends off once you have a little seniority on reserve. In my case, LGA, that was pretty much shortly after IOE. I had Thanksgiving and Christmas off my first year. YMMV
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