One night toward the end of December 05 scheduling was pulling the same shyte. Delta cut our flying in Dec but we didn't furlough until Jan 06, so a lot of pilots on reserve and not getting used. So at the end of the month a bunch of us senior reserves started getting called in for 6pm-midnight readies.

One night they had 6 50-seat FOs sitting ready in CVG. That's just the number in the trailer, who knows how many we had at Danbarry or already home. One of us called to ask about an early release and they said no, they might need all of us. Of course there was only one captain sitting ready, so who knows what they had in mind.

SSDD.