Oh no, it was not against any regs. Scheduling was very nice about it too, I asked, she checked and said "oh no, that's not right, I'll take it off your line." I offered to do anything else they had at the time and she said nothing was in open time right now. I was just wondering how often pilots take illegal (in the sense of contract, not FARs) assignments a)knowingly and grieve it later b) knowingly because they want to fly and don't care.

One other question as well. If we get an assignment and we're not sure if it's legal, is there a union rep oncall who we can get advice from before we have to report or query scheduling? What does the status rep do?