Originally Posted by
jsled
5-E-8-b VDO When a Reserve is contactable (i.e, he is required to be phone available), he may not withdraw the conversion at the time of assignment or between 1100 and 1500.
This blurb is on page 67 of the UPA. It is an ALPA highlight (clarification) from the April 8th version. My take is...if you VDO, you are on reserve. So, I would answer the phone.
I was specifically told that a VDO is still a day off, by my new hire mentor. He sent a few past mec update emails that confirmed this. You are under no obligation to answer your phone, but you can't call and withdraw your vdo during the time that you WOULD be contactable were you on reserve.
For those saying check your schedule, something must have changed, because the trip I got was not in open time (at least on crew companion), and it did not get put on my schedule. So I had to call them blind... But it worked out in my favor!
Also of note, per my mentor (backed up by the alpa emails), there is no "required" call out time for a vdo. So, if you are a commuter and don't want to do it, just let them know that you can't get there in time.
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