Originally Posted by TED74

Old Man Bob and Young Tom live in base. Bob is seniority #69, and Tom is seniority #6900. Both are the only two pilots on reserve, and they each have 4 days of availability in RAW bucket 1. They are both put on SC starting at 1000. Old Man Bob isn’t on APC and has never heard of non-contactable. Young Tom is addicted to APC and debates on APC all the time…he calls scheduling immediately after getting assigned SC and tells them he will be NC until 1200.

At 0300, scheduling runs trip coverage for a lone 4-day, reporting at 1130. Young Tom can’t be assigned the trip, so Old Man Bob gets it instead. Tom is happy because he goes golfing. Bob is happy because he doesn’t know about NC and doesn’t know to look at to coverage. In fact Bob is EXTRA happy because he’s not going to show up until he really has to (around 1400), because screw-them-they-stole-my-retirement.

But Bob flies with a chipper young FO who tells him what he’s reading on APC at cruise, and Bob quickly goes from happy to sad.

The next week, the exact same scenario happens except Bob also declares himself NC. The same trip requires the same coverage, and no reserve pilots can receive this 1130 report. At 3AM, a third pilot Weird George gets a call for a 4-day GS reporting 8.5 hours later. He cancels his tee time, and makes enough money in four days to cover his car payment for two years. Bob and Tom both go golfing. The end.