Originally Posted by iaflyer

I disagree - in 3 years on reserve, I've never been forced to work on an X day or a Golden day. Once, there was a mechanical and I was going to be extended (rerouted I guess) into a golden day. I just called Crew Tracking, told them (as it says in When Scheduling Calls) and within 30 minutes I was going to get home as originally scheduled.

But you have to tell crew tracking, they don't know about your schedule, they only know about the trip you're on.

Originally Posted by Herkflyr

That is correct, and a long-time defect of Delta (lack of) Technology. Crew Tracking literally does not see your schedule. They just see crews flying around the system. So if you are on day 3 of 3, and you have vacation starting the next day, Crew Tracking does not know or see that! So in the unlikely but always-possible event that you get rerouted into a longer trip that conflicts with vacation, golden day, etc. you must let Crew Tracking know and they will find someone else.

But this is also the airline industry. If you are scheduled to finish a trip with a "penalty lap" to an outlying station and you break hard up at FNT (or wherever), guess what? You may end up getting stuck overnight and flying into your vacation, etc. But Crew Tracking can not actually reroute you in advance to do that.