Reserve vs. Ready Reserve, which do you prefer?

wheelsup

wheelsup

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I prefer ready reserve, am I crazy? Only 8 hours on call vs. 15 and you get duty rig pay so you are guaranteed 4 hours per day of credit minimum and any time you duty over 8 hours it goes on top of guarantee. Guys are routinely doing 100-130 credit doing it and it's commutable on both ends, you start first day @ 12:30 PM and end the last day @ 12:30 PM.
 
Depends on the ready reserve rules.

It's a 4 hour assignment at XJT and you're unlikely to make that much bank.
 
wheelsup said:
I prefer ready reserve, am I crazy? Only 8 hours on call vs. 15 and you get duty rig pay so you are guaranteed 4 hours per day of credit minimum and any time you duty over 8 hours it goes on top of guarantee. Guys are routinely doing 100-130 credit doing it and it's commutable on both ends, you start first day @ 12:30 PM and end the last day @ 12:30 PM.
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Looks like you have some good work rules... That is a plus in your favor.


At 9E, Ready Reserve is the worst possible.

9 hours max, no duty rig, no guarantee of any pay, no per diem, not commutable and if you sit a month of RR, you probably will just take home your 75 hour guarantee. Chances are if you fly, you will either be assigned a trip that starts as you are walking in the door, or one that leaves several hours later and you are still required to sit RR.

Sometimes if you commute (and are senior enough on reserve) you can request planning to give you Ready Reserve Late (19:00 until 1 hour after last flight leaves), but more than likely you are going to get Ready Reserve AM which generally starts at 07:40 and runs until 16:40. Either that or you actually get Ready Reserve PM (12:00 until 21:00) and sit all day and be back for RR AM at 7:40 the next morning. And yeah, you read it right... 10:40 between legal RR periods (40 minutes more than our min rest time in base).

As far as commuting out, we can't initially be assigned a RR period at the end of a string of reserve days, so you generally end up with regular home reserve. If you get the AM variety (07:00 to 19:00) you might be able to catch the last flight out of MEM. If you get the PM variety (10:00 to 22:00) chances are they won't release you early and you end up missing all the flights. OR (and I have seen this) assign you a MX flight to CKB or GLH that is scheduled to get in just before midnight. Chances are you will be late and land just before 02:00 and with 9E, that is not an extension and you do no lose your day off, thus not awarded a comp day. :mad:


Most of that time you are sitting around bored out of your mind because there is NOTHING happening between the pushes. Needless to say, Ready Reserve at Pinnacle SUCKS BIG TIME!
 
Ready Reserve is probably as close to being in prison or maybe even house arrest especially if you have no work rules. It's torture especially when you know you're not going to be called. You will hate airport terminals.
 
We don't have scheduled ready sits, but they apparently use it quite a bit. I sat a ton of it at Eagle, and they do the scheduled 8hr thing with pretty much none of the work rules AWAC has. That sucked, but it was nice to be able to proffer for the 6AM-2PM one so you could get the commute home.

I'd do it in ORD because there's a good gym and stuff to do, but I'd hate it anywhere else.
 
wheelsup said:
I prefer ready reserve, am I crazy? Only 8 hours on call vs. 15 and you get duty rig pay so you are guaranteed 4 hours per day of credit minimum and any time you duty over 8 hours it goes on top of guarantee. Guys are routinely doing 100-130 credit doing it and it's commutable on both ends, you start first day @ 12:30 PM and end the last day @ 12:30 PM.
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You have to be at the airport sitting around for 8hrs? Ick!

It depends for me...Sometimes doing ready reserve on a quiet Sunday morning isn't bad because I know I won't get used and I'll be home by noon. 7am-11am for example. XJT we do 4 hours and get 4 hours of pay plus per-diem. Never back-to-back, and never on last day unless you ask for it.
 
I think it depends on the contract.

When I was at XJT I hated ready reserve (ARC). 5 hours of sitting for 4 hours of pay, but if you got used for a quick shot out to an overnight you got paid for whatever that flight time was. Sit for 4.5 hours before getting sent on a 23 minute flight to Lake Chuck...well, you got paid 23 minutes, not the 4.5 hours.

That's at least how I remember it. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
 
At Mesa regular reserve callout period is 12 hours. Ready reserve (get half pay credit for it) is usually 8 hours. I prefer regular reserve because they would stop putting me on ready reserve if I am ever near breaking minimum guarantee so the pay issue is moot.
 
If ASA had the on top of guarantee if duty over 8hrs work rule I would love ready reserve. Our workrules are pretty good for lineholders but for reserves the only extra bank you're making is per diem. Not many reserves around here break guarantee.
 
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