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White Van Driver
A reserve duty assignment must be notified by 8pm the day before. They CAN change it till 8pm the night before but it is generally pretty stable 2 days out.
A duty can include a flight, day off, home standby (2hr callout) or airport standby (SH only).
I think you'll do one every other month as junior LH (i certainly did last year!). Susceptibility to being assigned reserve is "banded" meaning pilots get double or triple points with more years in the company. But anyone can bid for reserve which can be a useful way of getting a few particular days off.
Again thanks for the information, how would a reserve block work towards the cap of hours needed per month? What happens in the 10 days if you get days off and stbys? Would that mean you need to make it up the following month or does it just magically end up working out through the system in the end? It also sounds like experience in the system is going to be the main way to understand how it works.