Originally Posted by
tennisguru
This is not correct. Scheduling can change your schedule with early report assignments as much as they want until 12 hours prior to the start of LC, OR until the pilot acknowledges an assignment. If they assign a rotation two days out, and you immediately acknowledge it, that is then locked in. Any further changes require them to notify you, which they cannot do since you are in rest up until report. In this case, since you acknowledged it, you are only required to report for the acknowledged rotation. At that point, since that rotation is gone, you would have to call them and they would then be able to notify you of the rotation removal. You should then go back on LC because any further assignment requires 18 hours notice.
I'm not sure that's true. 23.S.5.a says a LC pilot "must be available for contact by Crew Scheduling at any time while on-call", and 23.S.5.e "will not be required to remain available for contact in the 24 hours prior to the scheduled report of an assigned rotation." Which clearly implies that other than 24 hours prior, you must be contactable. I don't see anything which says 'acknowledging' an assignment does (effectively) the same thing as 23.S.5.e.
Further, 23.S.5.d. says you may be contacted by one of two methods 1. A phone call or, 2. placed on your schedule prior to 12 hours before the end of the last non-fly day, and 2.b.note says "A pilot is responsible for ascertaining whether they have been assigned a rotation or converted to short call under Section 23 S. 5. d. 2) b).
Crew Scheduling is not required to make telephone contact for such an assignment or conversion.
I will add that I've had a rotation changed like this (in the old "day prior" contract). Which doesn't necessarily mean it was legal when CS did it... I've also had CS correct a YS that was not honored, which was taken back off anothere pilot's line and correctly given to me. I'd be glad to be corrected here, because what you are saying is actually a pretty powerful thing if true. I've been wrong before.