BEEF SUPREME
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Sorry, I should have specified that I was asking about the current contract there.
Oh ok gotcha.
My experience on reserve at AS was pre pandemic. I became a line holder summer of 2019. I think I had 2 months, May and October on reserve in 2020.
You can really be placed on red eye trips if you are 0945 RAP. Unless you get placed into rest for 10 hrs and converted to a WOCL trip. I think this is pretty dangerous personally but many call me bad names for saying so.
I personally don’t nap well. I personally wake up at first light frothing for coffee and working out. At 8pm I’m Mr Sleepy. Some would call this healthy. Pilots call me a puss. Go figure.
To each their own and all. But for me, relative peace with reserve was the 0200 zone. I’d set my phone to nuclear death blast and only CS could wake me via DND on the iPhone. More often than not I’d be sleeping through my RAP and riding at the local bike park with a uniform in the car during the day. A lot of times they’d call me and inform me I had been assigned a trip for the next day. It was pretty hunky dory.
My worst month I was kicked down to red eye reserve by seniority which I believe was a 1730 RAP. I was a mess all month. I didn’t do well. Probation made it worse because I was afraid to call in fatigued. It wasn’t fun. 10/10 would not do that again. But for many this could be the best schedule. Errrryyyybody is different. Maybe you nap well. Maybe the kids leave you alone. Maybe you have a rad place that is quiet and dark and you can sleep.
These days I have no idea what it will be like for a reserve. I’m mentoring people and they don’t particularly enjoy it. And they are looking forward to the new contract. I think in February we will have another staffing crisis and mass cancellation thing again. And being a reserve will not be a party. But I’m not all knowing and maybe there is a plan for having 514 lines in SEA.
One thing I know for sure: travel with Auntie Alaska is predictable. She’s cheap. So you don’t get nice stuff.
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