Originally Posted by
Jesse
As of now I guess my coarse of action will be to take the back up flight and not call Crew Scheduling. Why highlight myself when I can just take the next flight.
You don't need to highlight yourself if there is room on your backup. That is the beauty of it, you use it if you need it, don't use it if you don't need it.
If you start using it when you don't need it, it will be a red flag for continuing the policy.
The caveat is if the gate agent is wrong, or another flight cancels and they send a boatload of HKs to your backup flight.