Originally Posted by ROCKETM8

Originally Posted by worstpilotever

1-2 years to hold the triple. 5-6 years to hold a crappy domestic line with 10 hour 2 day trips.

don’t do it.

Originally Posted by ROCKETM8

Thanks to everyone who has put an answer in - good, bad and ugly!
As to a couple questions asked:

1). Am not at United currently
2). Commuting from AK and Boise

Sorry, I'm new to the United thread. What are SCs (schedule changes?) and APUs? I have WB time and interested in the long term, next 25 years-ish. How many days ON is a line-holding WB FO at say SFO?

Originally Posted by JimLaheyTPS

That was the case when things were booming. I’m starting to think the days are over of 3 year upgrades and new hires on the WB’s. I’m not saying the sky is falling but realistically things aren’t looking real nice at the moment where majority of our SFO WB’s deploy to.

Originally Posted by webecheck

Correct, the layover can count, however most WB reserves who don't try to APU generally sit around doing SCs or the rare domestic equipment sub or ferry. Your example is a very rare occurrence and like I said never once had my days off rolled. I purposefully bid 3 x 6 day blocks though as a protection against that. That will give me an hdo on 1 which will force them to call someone else for the assignment, and for the other 2 blocks we're talking like a 1% chance of rolling if the stars align. I talk to people all the time who haven't bid up because they won't sit reserve out of fear of days off rolled. It's so overblown and they've been given bad info from people who don't quite understand the details.

It would be nice if we had something similar to delta in that you can have 1x15 day block for example. I'm a fan of long blocks of time off instead of the 3/3/6.

Originally Posted by JurgenKlopp

So basically you bid your whole schedule around preventing getting a Tuesday-Wednesday off in middle of month rolled? Must be nice. Most of us have things going on in our lives requiring specific HDO and if necessary RDO placement. That goes out the window fast if you are only bidding 6 day blocks. I guess that’s just bad info though.

Originally Posted by Andy

Nothing a little central bank quantitative easing can't fix. Expect it if things start going south for the economy.
I saw similar predictions after the dr dao incident. He wasn't even a speed bump. (insert joke here)

BOI is one leg on an RJ. ANC has to go through SEA..

Originally Posted by webecheck

Not sure why this isn't more understood, but it's easy to not get your days off rolled. In fact I've never had it done. Bid 6 day work blocks and don't pick up a SC on day 1.