Originally Posted by iaflyer

I discussed this with the ALPA scheduling guy at length. The basic answer on why there were 2 to 3 times the projected short-call list was "IROPS". MSP had a bad weather day (not the shutdown last week, this was in Nov) so they put *ALL* the 7ER categories east of the Mississippi "on alert" for lack of a better term.

The scheduling guy said, well, the SC list is just a projection, they can add to it for any reason. This irks me to no end - what's the point of a list if you're not going to follow it?

Like someone else said, I'd prefer to just not know what the SCs are, rather than look at the proposed list, then the actual list and get annoyed there are twice as many on SC as proposed.