After going a few years without reserve, I put myself back on reserve for January 2025. To get myself ready, I took a look at the PWA to get reaquainted with Yellow Slips. Specifically: 23.T.8


"If Crew Scheduling is unable to contact a pilot to inform them of a rotation awarded via a yellow slip, the rotation will be removed from the pilot’s line and returned to open time."

Does this really mean that every YS award can be rejected simply by refusing Crew Scheduling's attempt to contact me? Like, if they try and award me a trip via YS and I don't like it, I can just ghost them and the trip will be removed from my schedule?

Just above 23.T.8 section 23.T.7 reads:
A reserve pilot who is proffered/awarded a yellow slip for a rotation with a report that is:
a. 18 hours or less from first attempted contact may decline such award (this is a proffer).
b. more than 18 hours from first attempted contact is obligated to fly the rotation (this is not a proffer).

The conditions of a trip removal based on 23.T.8 makes no mention of a YS report being < or > 18 hours of first attempted contact, so what's the purpose of 23.T.7?

I'd like to put in a blanket YS for the month, but only accept the trips I like, rejecting the trips I don't.