Standby, Reserve, On-call. Different airlines may have different names for this type of duty, but it all means the same thing. The standby pilot is the one you call when one of the pilots scheduled to fly the trip is sick or perhaps calls in feeling much too well to go to work that day. My standby duty started at 210011 At 2101 my mobile phone rang. "Hi captain, this is Anna in the scheduling office. We are calling you out to operate Flight 35 to Milan. The scheduled push is 0135 local." "OK, I'll be there, " I reply.
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