Originally Posted by
TED74
This happens ALL THE TIME. Feel free to research it with a call to scheduling. What’s most likely is the trip you got didn’t exist at the time they pulled the trip coverage report for trip you “wanted”. Some time after that report was run (and covered), your crappy trip became uncovered and of course the junior pilot is no longer available for assignment. Reserve if-needed yellow slips are always a gamble. Sometimes you have to go ugly early with an actual yellow slip. And with 2-days-prior coverage under the new contract, the gambles will only become more uncertain.
I'm 95% certain both trips were in open time because I specifically put in the yellow slip to avoid the trip I was awarded. I don't have a screen shot of that though so I can't be certain.
I will call scheduling though to understand what happened.
Even if they did screw up the yellow slip award (which I think is a manual process) there is no recourse for me unless it's a contract violation. Do you know if it's a contract violation if they did screw it up on their end?