There are two things here:

1) The company has stated that they will "make every attempt to not assign" anything..... It was part of the "All Pilots Memo" in December that also outlined the requirement to acknowledge an assigned rotation ten hours prior to report.

2) The PWA requires a schedule check not before 1500 on your last non fly day but NLT 0200 on your first fly day. Its a check. Acknowledgment is different than a schedule check. Here is what the PWA/SRH states:


be required to check his schedule via DBMS or VRU:
1) 2)
after block-in of the last flight segment of his rotation prior to his release (see Section 12 G. 13. – 14.), and
no later than 0200 base time on his first on-call day following a non-fly day, so as to be able to acknowledge:
a) any assignment no later than three hours before a scheduled report of the
rotation or start of a short call period, or
b) the start of a rest period.


From the Scheduling Reference Handbook:


Long Call
A long-call pilot has a “12-hour leash,” as follows. Crew Scheduling will attempt to notify a long-call pilot of a rotation, short-call period, or rest period, and place the assignment on his schedule in iCrew. A long-call pilot has no obligation to check his schedule while on call, but:

􏰕 must acknowledge any assigned rotation no later than three hours prior to the scheduled report of the rotation,
􏰕 must acknowledge any assigned short-call period no later than one hour prior to the scheduled start of the short-call period, and
􏰕 must acknowledge any assigned rest period no later than six hours after the start of the rest period.
This effectively means a long-call pilot could turn off his phone for as long as nine hours, provided he then checks his messages and/or schedule in order to comply with the above requirements for acknowledgement.


Remember that the PWA and the requirements to check and acknowledge your schedule are your collective contract/agreement with the company. The Schedule Check after 1500 and NLT than 0200 is required in the PWA, and must be preformed, or you are in violation of the PWA. What and how the company chooses to assign rotation assignments is up to them, but this is your obligation.

In effect if you always check your sked at 0000 on your first RSV day you are in compliance.