It's the cord that crew scheduling unplugs during severe IROPs.

 

This is a great question for prophatcat.

 

Acknowledging is kinda funny in that it's like marking something as "read", or "receipt confirmed." It invokes notification, even if the original attempted contact wasn't necessarily proper or valid.

I don't think you ever have actually acknowledge any reserve assignment. But NOT acknowledging it doesn't make notification any more, or any less, valid.

I'm quite sure you could call the VRU (or check iCrew) post-rotation, hear (or read) a valid assignment, and acknowledge nothing. But whether or not you acknowledge it doesn't matter when you either show up to the legal assignment, or no-show it. If it was legal notification, you're responsible.

I do acknowledge things that I know are 100% legal, just to "clear my inbox" as it were. But I don't HAVE to, and not acknowledging doesn't make a legal assignment any less legal. And acknowledging something that was an otherwise invalid notification could make that notification potentially valid (Like acknowledging an assignment following X-days 2-days prior and effectively resetting your 30/168 window.)

 

There is only one mention in the contract of required acknowledgement: rest posted prior to a post-rotation schedule check must be acknowledged. There are reasons to acknowledge or not acknowledge other things.

 

Excellent point, and my previous post was incorrect on this:

PWA 23.S.5.f.

"A long call pilot... who is assigned a rest period: prior to release from a rotation, must acknowledge such assignment prior to release."


Side-mention: This is where pre-posted rest is being exploited. No time limitation exists in the PWA for how far out this rest begins. Or, for that matter, how many rest periods this could include.

 

TIL I have been confidently (incorrectly) saying "you never have to acknowledge anything" for a long time.

 

You don’t understand how RAW works.

RAW score just determines which bucket you are in…it has nothing to do with assignments within the bucket.

 

PWA says you must acknowledge rest that is assigned when doing the post RES rotation schedule check.

Nothing else needs to be ACK’d.

 

Isn't scheduling a 1-800 number so that it's toll free aka free from a payphone? Delta pays the bill, because pilots used to have to call scheduling from payphones sometimes.

 

Question about 23 S.1.a (note 2 exception):

If I had 6 days of availability, and selected reduce days of availability for a YS, I should only be awarded a 5 day trip, correct? Or does note 3 exception mean they could assign any length? TIA.