Originally Posted by
Airfix
Thanks everybody. I ended up using Crew Assist initially. They talked to a scheduling supervisor and had me call the supervisor directly. The supervisor had no issues and corrected my PB day allocation as you all suggested and the 5 day dropped back into open time, now being split up for green slips.
The run of the mill schedulers don't always understand the contract that well. This was my first time in this situation myself so I was a little unsure and ceded to the scheduler until you guys prompted me to challenge their actions.
Cheers,
Airfix
Glad it worked out, and hopefully the false/unclear interpretation that some schedulers have will disappear.
This begs the question of how many in your situation just accepted the reserve assignment? Hopefully none, or very few; but even if just 1 or 2 pilots per category per month accept this, or "flies then grieves" then the company saves several premium trips and PB days.
A5S