Since this trip would start Nov 1 - the max time I have is 28:17 (I have vacation starting on the 4th). The original WS that was 23K'd started October and was a spill. But the spill time into November was only one let back from FRA. And the WS I just requested was only 12 hours, so that's still well below the max pick-up. Can't seem to make it make sense! I also noticed that the trip was taken off the open board and assigned to someone else before they rolled the cards at noon - so I thought perhaps it went as "recovery flying" to someone else. But then this contractual time thing showed up as a reason?? Scratching head over here!