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They're meeting tomorrow, will this interpretation will be brought up? The problem I see is it's just a day off until your required rest prior to a duty period. The company can do whatever they please with your day off, they can also contact you one time during your required rest per the FAA.
I'm sure the legal dept has looked this over with our inspectors before implementation.
The biggest frustration is we (SAPA) wrote this and proposed it.

Check Complete

This has got to be the world's first and only semi positive post about SkyWest reserve.

It is the worst job you will have ever had!

We have pilots that have had to receive counseling for both depression and anger because of the absolutely atrocious QOL while on reserve.

About the only positive aspect of reserve is gives you an incentive to get out of SkyWest, it's that bad.

zondaracer

Lol honestly I’ve had worse jobs than commuting to reserve at SkyWest. Being based at home and on reserve isn’t that bad except the lack of income compared to being a line holder is a big downside. The other is lack of control of your schedule and being attached to the phone. Commuting to reserve is not fun.

All the regionals have reserve and they all seem to suck. The new rules at Endeavor seem to be the best, but when have you heard of someone at a different regional saying that reserve there is awesome?

NewGuy01

SkyWest reserve was much better than any 135 or 91 job I’ve ever been at.

That’s not saying much though.

I recently stopped bidding reserve when the new proffering system rolled out because it seemed like it was a mess. I also couldn’t bid for a specific long call line.

To be fair if you are an hour or less from ATL it isn’t that bad, but I’d expect to be flying a lot if you are a junior CRJ captain.


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ImPilot I Fly

Reserve coverage in ATL is pretty good. No open time at all for the whole month. I’ve been sitting in a hotel for a couple days. About to go stir crazy. Blocked 25 hours in the first half of March. Second half looks to be much slower. Going to have to find some new hobbies.

WesternSkies

Agreed.

In-base Reserve at OO felt like a part time job compared to my previous flying jobs.
But getting jerked around got old eventually.

Flymeaway

If you can consistently get to security in ATL in an hour and a half, reserve at OO wouldn’t be that bad. It’s not as good as a line, but I have to think it would be better than commuting to reserve elsewhere. At least you aren’t paying for 2 places to live and your days off aren’t spent getting back and forth to work.

You’ll be low man on the totem pole as a street captain anywhere, but at least at OO, no one else wants to go to ATL, so while your company seniority will be low, your base seniority won’t be as low as it would be otherwise.

That said, obviously 9E would be much better if you can get a decent class date. Maybe you’d get bumped up in line if they know you’ll upgrade right away. I highly recommend avoiding commuting to reserve, if at all possible, especially since as a street captain, you’ll likely be on reserve for quite awhile.

spaceboy30000

Thanks for the input, everyone. I'm hopefully getting an overall picture of what I'm considering. It sounds like a conservative approach would be to just stay right seat for a little bit, and then see for myself how the ATL base is working before volunteering for upgrade and getting stuck at the bottom of that list for a long time....

wrxpilot

Reserve is tolerable the first year. After the second year, it starts getting annoying. For me, the third year was when I started become angry and bitter, which is NOT my personality. Yes, it’s better than 135. But that’s about all I can say about it.

Life as a lineholder is MUCH better, and really is like being at a different airline. I would still rather drive to work as a reserve than commute to a line, but it truly does get to you after awhile.

E6BAV8R

About how long is it currently as an ATL new-hire FO on reserve before being able to hold a line?

Current rumor seems to be that some 700s might be heading to ATL.