Originally Posted by
DWC CAP10 USAF
23.M.7 applies to 23.N and 23.O
And no where in 23.N/O does it state "...that interrupts a vacation day"
Also the literal defitnion of "hard no fly day" is "non-fly day on which a pilot may not be inversely assigned to a rotation"....and vacation is the first example listed.
They can't ever interrupt a vacation day regardless of reason. I recommend that sometime when in ATL for training a pilot takes the time to visit crew scheduling and see how things function. The system will not pull up a pilot on vacation and the scheduler will never see your name under ordinary circumstances. I suspect what has happened on occasion is they set up a bucket brigade where non schedulers are given computer access and start pulling up schedules one at a time looking for pilots that could be used in violation of the contract the crew schedulers can't see in their system. That would also explain the calls coming from 404 rather than scheduling numbers. If true the above would make for a interesting discussion with a arbitrator during a grievance.