At 1:24, you're confusing Employee Number with seniority number. Your employee number stays with you for your entire career while your seniority number changes, depending on your airline, annually. 7:39 You can't just call up crew schedule and request a flight while on reserve. The schedulers are contractually bound to proffer flights in a specific sequence. There is also an equalization within reserve buckets that could have a super senior pilot with no flight credit be assigned a trip ahead of the most junior pilot who has just come off a trip. Once you figure out the system, reserve is great...for the last 4 years of my career I bid reserve and commuted while living out of domicile and never had a missed trip.
To keep it simple I wanted to avoid mentioning seniority # and just use the term seniority for simplicity. You are right seniority number does change with longevity and your employee number stays the same. I’m glad the last 4 years worked out the way you wanted! I don’t think I’d want to commute though. I think it’s either a “I don’t mind it” or “I hate it” relationship 😆
If you live in base it can be awesome. After 6 months commuting to reserve at a regional, I can confirm it is absolutely horrible. I ended up transferring to a more junior base because of how much I hate it.
Buddy of mine was a Jet Blue FO based out of NYC. He lives in St. Louis. He liked bidding short call (3 hrs). He would deadhead to NYC. Then he would workout at the gym. He also toured the city. Their contract guaranteed 5.75 hours a day minimum. with a 75 hour a month guarantee. He spent so much time in the gym he burned off all the weight he gained while with the feeder airline that abused him for two years. Another buddy is a Senior FO for AA. He like the Long Call. (12 hr) He was my CFI and he would give me lessons while banking 5.75 hours a day. He also painted his house, remodeled his basement and got to watch lots of kids sports.
Now THAT's what I call using reserves the right way lol! Well,,,that is, if you want to get paid not to fly. I can't see me doing that though (I say that now), I love to fly too much to see myself avoiding flying. Right now I'm sitting hot reserve in DFW just sitting here bored as heck in the crew room, until I got a call from crew scheduling telling me I''ll be flying tonight... It was like Christmas morning!!
@@AeroNerd I think I understand. My guys were slugging it out for 8-10 years before they could get the "sweet spot" on seniority. The JB guy is now a Captain with some good seniority. My CFI is a FO who is in the top 20% of seniority by choice. he has a new baby to on the way. Once baby is here and momma is squared away he will shift to a Wide-body inter-continental slot and really bring in the bucks.
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At 1:24, you're confusing Employee Number with seniority number. Your employee number stays with you for your entire career while your seniority number changes, depending on your airline, annually.
7:39 You can't just call up crew schedule and request a flight while on reserve. The schedulers are contractually bound to proffer flights in a specific sequence. There is also an equalization within reserve buckets that could have a super senior pilot with no flight credit be assigned a trip ahead of the most junior pilot who has just come off a trip. Once you figure out the system, reserve is great...for the last 4 years of my career I bid reserve and commuted while living out of domicile and never had a missed trip.
To keep it simple I wanted to avoid mentioning seniority # and just use the term seniority for simplicity. You are right seniority number does change with longevity and your employee number stays the same. I’m glad the last 4 years worked out the way you wanted! I don’t think I’d want to commute though. I think it’s either a “I don’t mind it” or “I hate it” relationship 😆
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If you live in base it can be awesome. After 6 months commuting to reserve at a regional, I can confirm it is absolutely horrible. I ended up transferring to a more junior base because of how much I hate it.
Buddy of mine was a Jet Blue FO based out of NYC. He lives in St. Louis. He liked bidding short call (3 hrs). He would deadhead to NYC. Then he would workout at the gym. He also toured the city. Their contract guaranteed 5.75 hours a day minimum. with a 75 hour a month guarantee. He spent so much time in the gym he burned off all the weight he gained while with the feeder airline that abused him for two years.
Another buddy is a Senior FO for AA. He like the Long Call. (12 hr) He was my CFI and he would give me lessons while banking 5.75 hours a day. He also painted his house, remodeled his basement and got to watch lots of kids sports.
Now THAT's what I call using reserves the right way lol! Well,,,that is, if you want to get paid not to fly. I can't see me doing that though (I say that now), I love to fly too much to see myself avoiding flying.
Right now I'm sitting hot reserve in DFW just sitting here bored as heck in the crew room, until I got a call from crew scheduling telling me I''ll be flying tonight... It was like Christmas morning!!
@@AeroNerd I think I understand. My guys were slugging it out for 8-10 years before they could get the "sweet spot" on seniority. The JB guy is now a Captain with some good seniority. My CFI is a FO who is in the top 20% of seniority by choice. he has a new baby to on the way. Once baby is here and momma is squared away he will shift to a Wide-body inter-continental slot and really bring in the bucks.
Flying is great but the longer you're in the industry, the more you try and find ways to work less!
@@joshilini2 😆 isn’t that with any career field?
Personally can’t imagine being on reserve and not living on base, doesn’t seem ideal in any way.
@@BassAssassin123 it sucks!
Watching this while on reserve 🤣
@@JoeHicks 😆😂
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