First Month Reserve Schedule

Airline Pilot Questions & Answers
1

Disclaimer This is my experience of my first month on reserve at Envoy as a E145 FO in NYC. Your experience May vary greatly based on your regional, base, equipment, date of hire, etc…

RAP - “Reserve Availability Period” is a 14 hour window in which we have a 3hr callout in NYC. This meaning if we are called, we have 3 hours to report to either LGA or JFK, whichever they assign.

Standby - An 8 hour period in which we are at the airport and are ready to be called with very little notice.

DHD - Deadhead. This is when we are riding as a passenger for the purpose of being repositioned while working.

I had “11” Days off, commuting definitely cuts into time off on some days. Definitely takes some time to figure it all out.

9/30 - OFF (Evening Commute to LGA)
10/1 - RAP 4am-6pm
10/2 - Standby LGA 3pm-11pm
LGA-CHM
10/3 - CHM-MIA / MIA-LGA(DHD)
10/4 - RAP 12pm-12am
10/5 - OFF (Morning Commute from LGA)
10/6 - OFF (Evening Commute to LGA)
10/7 - RAP 10am-12am Standby 7pm-10pm JFK
10/8 - Standby JFK 2pm-10pm
JFK-ORF
10/9 - ORF-JFK Canceled (DHD ORF-JFK)
10/10 - Indoc at LGA (Commute from LGA)
10/11 - OFF
10/12 - OFF
10/13 - (Morning commute to JFK) Standby JFK 2pm-10pm
JFK-ORD
10/14 - DHD ORD-LGA
10/15 - RAP 10am-12am
10/16 - RAP 10am-12am (Evening Commute from LGA)
10/17 - OFF
10/18 - OFF (Evening commute to LGA)
10/19 - RAP 10am-12am
10/20 - Standby LGA 3pm-11pm
10/21 - Standby LGA 11am-7pm
LGA-YYZ
10/22 - YYZ-LGA (Evening commute from LGA)
10/23 - OFF
10/24 - OFF
10/25 - OFF
10/26 - (Morning commute to LGA) Standby LGA 11am-7pm
10/26 - DHD LGA-CAE
10/27 - CAE-LGA
10/28 - Standby LGA 11am-7pm
10/29 - RAP 10am-12am (Evening commute from LGA)
10/30 - OFF
10/31 - OFF
11/1 - OFF

11 Days Off
Flew 13.36 Hours

6 Likes
2

Can I ask where you’re commuting to NYC from?

3

I split my time between Tampa, FL, and Minneapolis, MN. Both commutes are pretty easy.

4

Thank you for posting your schedule!

Chris

5

Thanks for the info!

6

Sounds like a hoot!

Adam

7

We’re you able to hold NYC right out of training?

8

Did you get a crash pad in NYC?

9

NYC on the 145 is Junior, we were assigned it. Didn’t get a choice.

1 Like
10

Envoy gives NY based pilots 3 free months of hotels out of training, so until January I don’t need to worry about a crashpad but will most likely need one after that.

2 Likes
11

You will most definitely want a crashpad. The whole hotel thing sounds great, until it snows, there are severe storms, the room rates double or rooms just aren’t available, etc. The crashpad is always there, it is why I still have one.

1 Like