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At Virgin we couldn’t pick up on reserve days off. At AS you can pick up regular trip 100% or premium if offered 150%. Both cases it goes above guarantee.
 
adk said:
If you can’t golf a full 18 with your phone off it’s not a day off.
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Or open a cold one on your roof.

Nark said:
Seriously. I often will play around in my own bird while on an R day, but I’m well within the confines of what is required by the CBA.
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I've never understood playing reserve roulette. It is a duty like anything else, with clear expectations and responsibilities literally everywhere I've worked.
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Autothrust Blue said:
Or open a cold one on your roof.


I've never understood playing reserve roulette. It is a duty like anything else, with clear expectations and responsibilities literally everywhere I've worked.
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You have to be smart, and be compliant within the CBA+FOM.
That said, know the contract. Know the FOM.

By all means, pull a plagiarizing photographer and get your pee-pee slapped.
 
WaterRooster said:
Two types of people when it comes to reserve. Worked or didn’t work. If I’m not used on my reserve days, I didn’t work and will pick up on my scheduled days off. To me I work maybe 10 days a month.
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I guess I’m just the other type of person who enjoys riding my bike and going golfing on days off vice sitting at home tethered to my phone.
 
adk said:
I guess I’m just the other type of person who enjoys riding my bike and going golfing on days off vice sitting at home tethered to my phone.
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I should get my bikes put together already.

That said, I don't lack things to do while I'm on call either, from the master's degree, to trolling the lot of you, reading a good book and my computing odds and sods. I've been approached about some side IT work on a contract basis too, which will be most welcomed.
 
adk said:
I guess I’m just the other type of person who enjoys riding my bike and going golfing on days off vice sitting at home tethered to my phone.
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Nothing wrong with that at all. I have side gigs I can do from home and a honey-do list that seems to never end....
 
Come on, you can’t golf everyday. When I’m home on reserve during the weekday, I get up and take the kid to school / drop off. Then I also pick up from school. We do some activity together in the weekday, which could be out in the park or some play area type thing. I do homework and then help prepare and put him to bed.

You know, a fathers normal everyday weekday routine. It still feels like a day off. With a 2 hr call out, I give 30 minutes for the drive and 30 minutes from employee lot to gate. So even after the call I have 1 hr to get home and ready to leave. I hardly have to go over 1 hr away from my home for any activity.
 
Box hauler said:
Well I’m not on RSV but I can think of a few non shady ways to do it. First off you can do your best to bid weekend and holidays off so they call you more for JRM or X- list trips. You can also waive your 4 days off now to help you get a large block of days off so they can offer you 3-4 day premium trips without breaking 117 rules. Second would be to bid the reserve block with the least number of departures. When I was on RSV in FLL I would bid R11 because on almost every RSV block I did they would call me and offer 4 days of move up in order to show up at say 9:30 am. Not too difficult
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Ok, take a deep breath, it was only a question...a legit one at that. In the past, perhaps prior to your tenure, shady deal making with scheduling was common practice among some of our "me first, what contract" club.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
At my shop I get a 100 hrs by doing short call rsv which gives 12 days off and 79 hr guarantee, and then pick up two 2-day trips paying at least 11 hrs each. That makes it 101 credit. Granted you then only have only 8 days off on paper, but I’m hardly used on reserve. Living 30 minutes from the airport, if I’m not used it feels like a day off.
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101 credit for 8 days off? That's turrible.
 
Cruise said:
Ok, take a deep breath, it was only a question...a legit one at that. In the past, perhaps prior to your tenure, shady deal making with scheduling was common practice among some of our "me first, what contract" club.
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I’m not sure why I need to take a deep breath while you explain basically nothing to me but sure, I’ll give it a try. Did my post come off as some kind of rant to you? I was literally just explaining easy ways to make money on reserve. Happy you were able to find something wrong with it though....
 
mikecweb said:
101 credit for 8 days off? That's turrible.
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On paper. Obviously differing opinions exist but to me being 30 minutes away, not being used on a reserve day still feels like a day off. I do all my normal stuff unless I get called. Getting kids ready for school, pickup/drop off school, gym, errands, shopping, etc. I can do all those things and if I get a call I can come home, get ready, and then go to airport.

June was my busiest month so far and I flew 36 hours, 10 of which I had picked up. In May I flew a total of 4 days on reserve. Picking up the two 2-day trips meant I flew a total of 8 days. I was home the other 23 days of May for 102 hrs credit.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
On paper. Obviously differing opinions exist but to me being 30 minutes away, not being used on a reserve day still feels like a day off. I do all my normal stuff unless I get called. Getting kids ready for school, pickup/drop off school, gym, errands, shopping, etc. I can do all those things and if I get a call I can come home, get ready, and then go to airport.

June was my busiest month so far and I flew 36 hours, 10 of which I had picked up. In May I flew a total of 4 days on reserve. Picking up the two 2-day trips meant I flew a total of 8 days. I was home the other 23 days of May for 102 hrs credit.
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I said it above but I’ll say it again. Two types of people on reserve. The people who are in a 4 day block, don’t fly, and say they just had 4 days off. The other people on the same 4 day block say they just worked for 4 days. Obviously it’s easier to be in group 1 if you live in base, so I do get the commuter part, but if you are living in base and are group 2, I got nothin
 
Yup. The only case I’d concur is if there is airport reserve. Now that is work because you aren’t at home for 6-8 hrs and feels like going to an office job. We don’t have airport reserve but there’s a couple large/legacy airlines that do.
 
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