Originally Posted by
Adlerdriver
One other area many people have problems with is called “substitution”. It’s too complicated to get into a lot of detail. In a nutshell, if you have a trip cancelled due to conflict with a prior trip you’re on, maintenance, etc. you basically go on reserve for the footprint of the trip that’s getting dropped. It can be a good deal if your conflicted trip is a short crappy trip and they don’t use you. You get paid and go home after being available for a few hours. If you had a nice 12 day trip to cool places, now you’re stuck in MEM on call each day at the mercy of the schedulers.
When this happens, how is the pay handled? I'm sure it's like you said, complicated. But when you are basically on reserve for that period where you were substituted and get called to fly, does that time get paid above your ORIGINALLY scheduled trip's credit? In other words, original trip worth 80 hours, get pulled off and reassigned to 25 hours of flying, do you know get 105 hours pay credit or just the 80?
Or, are you pay protected on the original trip and if your new assignment doesn't exceed that, you simply get what the original was worth? OR, does it reduce you down to your minimum applicable monthly guarantee for that bid period's length and your new trip would have to exceed that to break it?