TrojanCMH

Not dumb at all. You switch to a base you can hold a line then swap all your trips out of where you live/your preferred more senior base or you can drop all your trips and wait for stuff to pop up on the x list or opentime. Plenty of guys do it. I did it when I upgraded as reserve started to take its toll.

SSlow

Yeah, and I don't think DFW reserves get used as much considering they cannot easily limo pilots between four different stations like they can in MCO/FLL.

FNGFO

It’s a long time to sit reserve whether it’s 4 years or 3+ rounded up. In fact, there’s a pretty steady churn of mid seniority DFW CA’a bailing to hold lines in other bases to either commute to a definite schedule or play the drop or X/Y game.

I’ll probably be doing the same one day.

dualinput

Our memories of the grid turning red during IOT or shortly after seem to have faded.

TrojanCMH

I did this all through Covid and it was tough, there was never anything in opentime to swap with and as the sole earner I couldn’t just drop my entire month and hope something came up. But it usually worked out to where I wasn’t commuting more than once a month if at all. But every situation is different. You add in more pay, plus more days off and not being tied to a phone all day and it can start to make sense.

Also not everyone who drives to work or “lives in base” lives 10 minutes from the airport. In my situation I could sit reserve at home but I had to basically be waiting and ready to leave as soon as I got a call to make the 3 hour reserve window, so a couple years of it got to be stressful and my life was basically refreshing flica every 10 minutes. Luckily those days are past for me but not always a stupid strategy if your situation is appropriate…

FLYBOYMATTHEW

I think he means more like 4 or 5 years ago. Company used to basically checkerboard the red/green grid by setting the required RSV number unreasonably high on some days, making it nearly impossible to dump a 4-day.

JulesWinfield

Getting showered and ready to go everyday with a uniform and 6 days of clothes packed isn’t that stressful. Treat it like you’re working everyday and don’t make plans and appointments and it’s much lower stress than constantly trying to swap and drop and plan commutes to some random base.

TrojanCMH

That’s a nice opinion you have.

BeechedJet

You know how we can fix attrition, all of the reserve FO/CA’s should post what they make in the W2 thread.

gflann

Breaking guarantee this month solely on reserve assignments!