I spoke with M.S. in crew planning about this exact situation two days ago, as I had questions about my VTO. His answer was that DPs WILL NOT be assigned to a VTO holder unless specifically requested. (I'm guessing he meant "from now on" )

That being said, I'm not going to jump to conclusions on the two FO offenders until I get some emails back.

Frankly, given the -600 employee numbers, I won't be surprised if they requested them. Something obviously got lost on that crowd...but we'll see. Apologies to all my PN homies who continue to fight the good fight. Call these guys out!