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Flys4Funs
Thanks for clarifying - very interesting.
I had another question on Dupre’s reserve point - if you bid reserve, you get an additional week up front - I guess you can’t bid reserve and take a leave period in the same month - i.e. get the seven days off for reserve and another 8/11 days off?
How does the reserve work, you get allocated a time slot and are on two hours notice for that period. Is this for the entire rest of the month (7 days a week) after your first week off?
If there is more than a certain amount of preexisting credit (e.g. due to leave, sims, etc) in the 4 weeks of reserve you are looking to bid for the bid will be invalid, so no, in short you can’t have a standard leave block imbedded in the 3 weeks after the Fixed Days Off.
How it works...(Long haul) you have to be on the end of the phone for three hours every evening to possibly be assigned a duty the next day. That duty might be a trip or it might be a home standby where you are on 2 hours notice (timed from phone call to crew car park at LHR).