Look at his pairing. It may have been the first leg of some trip but not his. He was supposed to be ending his 3-day today with a DH from CLE-IAH after overnighting in CLE. It's easy to be abused at that point: scheduling cancelled his DH and modified his pairing to add the MCO leg and then DH to IAH.

That's our contract. You are essentially a reserve from show time until you get done, even as a line holder. Anything in between and the company can do whatever they want.

Yes, he's IAH but in this case I wouldn't hold it against him for scheduling's use of our weak contractual language. Then again, it was an alphabet soup pairing number to begin with so it could have been picked up on the front end to take advantage of pay opportunities for all I know.