Originally Posted by
gloopy
If your request was in prior you may have a case. Call DALPA ASAP.
They sometimes do print a list and go from that ahead of time, but that's for their convenience. AFAIK there is no provision allowing them to bypass pilots with legit requests in prior to the awards.
23 M.7. allows schedulers to deviate from the coverage sequence "to maintain schedule integrity", but it requires them to also pay the pilot who should have gotten the trip in the coverage sequence.
If you call the DALPA scheduling committee, they will research it and make sure the correct pilot gets paid. It may or may not be you.