Originally Posted by Dave Fitzgerald

You answered the phone?? On a layover, just don't do it.

Yes, it should have been in open time. It may have been in open time in ORD, did you check? If it was last minute, the crew desk gets creative. If they can't fill it in domicile, that's when they start with alternative solutions. Outsource it to other bases, in this case, DEN with DH on both ends, or in your case, reassign.

Reassignments are under different rules. They can reassign you in less time than it is required to be available in open time, and more often than not, it is shorter time than they can get a legal reserve. Another way around that is the senior manning. There are no rules on senior manning report times.

However it sucks, it sounds like it may have been legal. More transparency is what we need in the staffing area of the contract. We don't have that anymore. Next contract....maybe....