For comparisons sake, I’ve just looked at my logbook and brought up a report on the last 6 months. Just a shade over 100 hours flying in the last 6 months. That’s 737 LHS with nothing other than normal annual leave taken at various points etc
Definitely a lot of standby in the winter, but being used is rare. If you can manage to live full time near your base you can pretty much go about life as normal? But I can understand that for those who need to travel to secondary accommodation near their base, lots of standby is a pain