Originally Posted by
DeadHead
Thanks ACL,
My question on a more specific level was, once a trip had been assigned to a long call pilot on the day prior (more than 12 hours), can an out-of-base white slip legally come and decide to take the trip from a RES pilot after it has been assigned later in the day (but still 12 hours from report)
Scheduler tried to pull a trip after they assigned it to me, and I queried the scheduler about it and I got the trip back. I was just curious because it seemed unusual. I realize a white slip has first dibs on a trip, but I didn't think a trip could be pulled like that after it has been assigned.
Scheduling has the right under the contract to correct mistakes. If a scheduler assigns a trip and it is not per the contract they can correct that mistake at no penalty to the company. What they can't do however is what I suspect happened in your case. They are short on pilots. They cover your trip with you as a reserve. Another pilots sees the trip in the daily coverage and calls scheds and says since you are short I will take the trip on a out of bases WS. They move the trip to get you back into their hip pocket on reserve. The fact the scheduler agreed to keep you on the trip tells me this is the case. If it was a mistake he could have simply told you to bad. There was more to the story.