Originally Posted by
Purple Drank
If I'm not mistaken, an IROP can be declared by the company pretty much anytime for anything.
In other words, FAR117 itself could be considered an IROP.
“Irregular operations” (IROPS) means an event(s) in the system (e.g., sickness, fatigue or
31 no-show of another pilot, weather, mechanical, aircraft type substitution, substitution of
32 one aircraft model for another aircraft model on which the pilot is not qualified,
33 diversion, cancellation, overflight, misconnect, application of the FARs) that causes a
34 pilot to be removed from his scheduled rotation or portion thereof.
I believe your statement is 100% correct.
My point from earlier though is that if the segment doesn't enter open time, there is no coverage sequence, just a reroute.