Hot/ready reserve

DE727UPS said:
The DFW hot used to switch between ONT and SDF from time to time. But it could just as well be gone with the downsizing. Be surprised if PHL was gone but I've been out of the game for three years. You have to be exceptionally good at being lazy to not go stir crazy doing hots. That's me.
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I think they’ve gotten clever about it. I got a 8hr sit in DFW coming up. I’ve had 5-6hr sits in other places over the past few months as well. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re just using line holders as HS when they can.
 
bike21 said:
Still have the scars of endless hours of ready in ORD & DEN. Missed commutes, 435 area code frustrations voiced & life wasted. I eventually figured out the deepest, darkest corners of both airports to hide that weren't the crew lounges. Once I finally got based back home in DEN, my ready reserve periods may or may have not progressively ended further from the airport eventually ending up on my mountain bike as ready expired. Allegedly.
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I feel like once you find the most secluded spot to drop a deuce in the airport, you’ve reached ready reserve nirvana. You ascend to a higher existence after that.
 
bike21 said:
Still have the scars of endless hours of ready in ORD & DEN. Missed commutes, 435 area code frustrations voiced & life wasted. I eventually figured out the deepest, darkest corners of both airports to hide that weren't the crew lounges. Once I finally got based back home in DEN, my ready reserve periods may or may have not progressively ended further from the airport eventually ending up on my mountain bike as ready expired. Allegedly.
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In all of that ready I did, I got exactly one "bolt from the blue."

Naturally it came 3 minutes away from my release time that day, was at the limits of my FDP and involved an operational poop-show.
 
Was sitting airport reserve at Compass when I got the email from Virgin America to go do a drug test (precursor to an offer).

Went down Century Blvd to the closest place on the list. Didn’t get called, got the job offer, started class sooner than people who waited to do the test. Worked out well!
 
bike21 said:
Still have the scars of endless hours of ready in ORD & DEN. Missed commutes, 435 area code frustrations voiced & life wasted. I eventually figured out the deepest, darkest corners of both airports to hide that weren't the crew lounges. Once I finally got based back home in DEN, my ready reserve periods may or may have not progressively ended further from the airport eventually ending up on my mountain bike as ready expired. Allegedly.
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I, uh, might know someone who once spent 90 minutes of their 2 hours of RDY on a plane flying over 1,000 miles away from base...

Autothrust Blue said:
In all of that ready I did, I got exactly one "bolt from the blue."

Naturally it came 3 minutes away from my release time that day, was at the limits of my FDP and involved an operational poop-show.
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Only times I was ever used on RDY with any regularity was when said RDY was part of commuting to/from out of base reserve.

Beyond that, stand alone RDY while in base, twice.
 
Seggy said:
You PSAers with your fancy ready reserve rooms!

I would bet a lot of money no one, except for me, had the 'pleasure' of sitting 8 hours of Ready Reserve in the passenger terminal in HPN spring of 2007. Doing the Colgan 2007!
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"Scheduling, this is Irene." <CLICK>
 
I assume acceptable contact methods are ancient text in every contract at this point.

Can crew scheduling get their hands on ACARS or EFB apps to change your plans for any reason?
 
Minuteman said:
I assume acceptable contact methods are ancient text in every contract at this point.

Can crew scheduling get their hands on ACARS or EFB apps to change your plans for any reason?
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Our company sends changes to an in house App on our company phones. They also send wakeups to that phone as well. We get so many schedule changes that if the alarm doesn't go off, it generally means that the plane is late. It could be by an hour, or three days.
 
DE727UPS said:
At Brown they have hot standby in SDF, RFD, MIA, DFW, and ONT. I did a lot of RFD my last four years. It was very senior. Week on, week off, with a paid commercial deadhead in and out. It was a crew and an empty airplane ready to go in 30 min. 8 hours on duty (8pm to 4am) then back to the hotel. They have individual sleep rooms for the crews. I'd actually fly average 2 or 3 days a week. Some times they would get you every day and sometimes not at all. Once you were in the system and the plane was out of position you'd often end up as a reserve with a made up schedule. That sucked. Pretty cool video. (There is an MD11 at the end....)
View: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=585421058583571
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Your last 4 years you were still working graveyards.
 
scoobs said:
Your last 4 years you were still working graveyards.
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Some freight guys like that.

I've gotten to where I don't enjoy day flying anymore. Too busy. Too much traffic. Too much bitching about the rides so that you can't get a word in edgewise. Too much meowing. Too much people.

Give me an AM launch and in bed before sunrise any day!
 
scoobs said:
Your last 4 years you were still working graveyards.
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I fly days with 25-30yr captains, some @DE727UPS provably know in ONT and I’ll bet money he had a better QOL working graveyards than I do flying days. I lose a week off just bidding days, and deal with constant circadian flips. That doesn’t happen much with night flying here.

Once you understand the dynamics of big Brown it makes sense. Besides the whale Hot Standby here for some is like the 78 at United or the 350 at Delta. Somewhere to hide and hopefully coast out into retirement without working too hard.
 
phill1174 said:
I fly days with 25-30yr captains, some @DE727UPS provably know in ONT and I’ll bet money he had a better QOL working graveyards than I do flying days. I lose a week off just bidding days, and deal with constant circadian flips. That doesn’t happen much with night flying here.

Once you understand the dynamics of big Brown it makes sense. Besides the whale Hot Standby here for some is like the 78 at United or the 350 at Delta. Somewhere to hide and hopefully coast out into retirement without working too hard.
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Yikes.
 
luke3 said:
The Southernjets voluntary airport standby is a surprisingly good deal. It is up to a 6 hour window, and is used pretty low in the coverage process: after all regular pickups, reserves, and premium pickups. It is basically the last step before they reroute someone. If you get assigned a trip you have to be released as soon as you touch your base again or on the second calendar day, whichever occurs first. If you don't get used it pays a full day's guarantee (5h15') plus an additional 3h. Line holders will get the entire 8h15', reserves will have the 5h15' go towards their reserve guarantee for the month, but the 3h will be on top of guarantee. If you get a trip, it pays the value of the trip plus the additional 3h. Similarly the trip credit goes towards the monthly reserve guarantee for reserves but the 3h stays on top of guarantee. They can also be picked up as greenslips and all the usual greenslip additional pay applies.

They were offered a few times in my category so far this year, and basically went to area code seniority as a straight pickup.
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A reserve picking one up will satisfy one of their short calls for the month as well.
 
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