Originally Posted by sailingfun

If the trip reports in 10 hours and they do as you state then the trip will depart at least two hours late. They have to give you 10 hours notice to start the short call and then once they call you you have only to be reasonable available which is generally considered to be around 2 hours in normal traffic. If its a co domicle airport then you can measure that two hours by the airport closest to you and any other airport will take longer then 2 hours. The earliest you can be required to report is 12 hours after they put you on short call. I have never seen them hold a trip to cover it the moment you have to answer the phone. I also suspect it would be contractually wrong.