Not true Alan. This happened to me over Easter about two years ago, when Easter was at the end of the month. I had one day of availability and they called me with a two day. I was a Regular pilot the next month and after my one day of reserve I had off days as a regular pilot. Believe me when I say I protested. I talked to multiple schedulers and eventually ALPA. All said the same thing and my own investigation concurred. Basically, It's in the coverage sequence and uses the term " with least interruption". But that's not the best part. You will not be given premium pay of any kind. Of ANY kind. Why? Well it is not a GS, an IA, or a reroute per the definitions in the PWA. Those are the only events that trigger some kind of premium pay. Also, you won't even be given 5:15 or even 4:30 for that day since those are averages only.

In summary, I was forced to fly into an off day for about 2 hours of pay. Day one (the reserve day) had 7 hours of flying. The trip paid a total of 9 hours (since I was a reserve when they assigned it to me) leaving me with the remaining 2 hours that added to my next month as a regular pilot. Most pilots don't know they can force you to fly into off days for potentially zero pay. Zero.