Let me give you a brief history of reserve rules at Envoy. Back in the good ole days when CS gave you an assignment the day prior you just did it. You confirmed and you flew the assignment. At one point you didn't even have to confirm you just showed up to your assignment. Well 117 said the company couldn't require you to check your schedule or do anything when you are in rest so at midnight the company would call and give assignments to those that didn't confirm with the required ten hours of rest. The absurd scenario you described where no one would confirm their RAP 1 ACTUALLY happened for more than a year without pre assigned RAP 1. The company would have zero pilots on early RAPs and had to cancel flights. Then they started to do PRE assignments of RAP 1 via HI6 on their first day back off rest.

There's two things that I want to clarify. If you don't confirm your schedule for the next day and you have been pre assigned a RAP 1 and you proffered for something else then your RAp 1 is Put back on you at 9 pm central.

If you are in the middle of the reserve days and you forget to confirm then CS will likely call you between 8-930 instead of waiting until midnight. (People will disagree with this next statement and they may be right contractually but my advice is that those who want to avoid hassles and are on probation.) If you get a call from CS before midnight you are not required to call them back. My only suggestion is if you are currently on a RAP or standby then you should return the call. Some people will say you Never have to return a call for a next day reserve assignment until midnight.