Originally Posted by Dave Fitzgerald

You usually will have plenty of notice on reserve of trips. But, the crew desk still insists on building short calls, field standby is pretty useless and they don't use it much for the 777. The duty days are just too long, except the little amount of domestic flying that is done. Same problem with short call. Most international trips, the duty day is too long, and still the crew desk builds and assigns short calls.

However, one problem with reserve on the 777, usually they have enough reserves, but not in summer, its crazy. But when they are short, and it could be any base, they will use the short calls to DH you to, say ORD for a 6 day trip after that. That's fine for deviating on the DH, but it also means you can never tell when they are going to shift what base crews the trip. This also means last minute DH's, to cover flying in another base. The DH should be booked in first class; take a screen shot when they don't give you a 1st class seat. Must be available at the time of booking.

The crew desk considers rolling RDO's to be normal. Be prepared for not getting days off, even ones you have multiple RDO's on. That means, if you are using those days for military, it could get sticky fast. HDO's are the only guarantee.

Warning, thread drift ahead! As for our reserve system, nah, it doesn't need fixing. go ahead and roll any improvements another 2 years down the road.

Originally Posted by SVA402

Do you have the ability to look at bid packets or preview trips in other fleets and bases to help decide if it's something you would like to bid for?

Originally Posted by MasterOfPuppets

You can look in your own Crew Companion. In the upper right select options>operational then select the fleet seat and base in the drop down menu hit save and study away.

Originally Posted by 89Pistons

Not sure if 777 reserve in EWR is similar to DCA but in DCA I've never seen a FSB, haven't been rolled into any RDO's, HDO's, or FDO's, and have had a max of 4 SC's in a month. That could all change in the future though.

Originally Posted by bigfatdaddy

Ha ha good one! I was thinking the same thing reading this post. The "how does this affect me crowd" will be sure to weigh in

Originally Posted by Where2go

The easiest way to know what it's like is to go to staffing in ccs or cat award in PBS to see who's on reserve. Write their employee #'s down.
Go to My Calender under scheduling. You can then enter their employee # there and you see exactly what junior 777 reserve schedules look like.
I've already done and it doesn't look good enough for me to bid it.

Originally Posted by ugleeual

I'm in my first full rsv month in dc and have been used 2 weeks in a row on 7 and 6 day trips... RDOs rolled each time since not enough rsv days to cover the IDa... So make sure your family, if you have one, is prepared for changes...

Originally Posted by bigboeings

Do reserves get used much, or can agressive pickup be successful?

Originally Posted by Hilltopper89

That's a huge "what if." Reserve sucks. It's all based on base and seat. Living in base on a narrowbody is semi-tolerable. Otherwise, nyet.