Maybe a crazy question, but are you hitting "submit" and getting a confirmation?

It ain't crazy, and yes/yes.

But keep asking, I feel like I'm missing something utterly obvious and no idea what it is. It sure doesn't appear to be difficult and yet my results indicate otherwise

*shrug*

The company will fly you on your golden days anyway without the courtesy of a reach around. You're not missing out by screwing this up.

Not necessarily true. You have to call Crew Tracking to tell them that you have a golden day, when they try to reroute you. Then they'll work to not reroute you into golden days. It's worked for me. Crew Tracking has no idea of your schedule, other than the rotation you are on.

from the Scheduling Handbook:

Crew Scheduling will make every reasonable effort to resolve any conflict between a reroute and a pilot’s scheduled vacation or other hard non-fly day (e.g., MLOA, golden X day, legal duty, PD, APD) provided the pilot notifies Crew Scheduling of the conflict. Crew Tracking is not aware of a pilot’s future schedule when a reroute is created.

NOOP
 

Here is a question for the wise among the masses before calling crew scheduling and/or ALPA. A spillover rotation was NOOP due to an equipment change. It was originally published as two flying legs, then changed to DH out (in April) and fly back (in May). Now it was dropped entirely from my schedule. The first line of the published rotation was not asterisked, but the second line had an asterisk. Section 4E1 and 4F6 were of limited help and 23K doesn't address NOOP. My initial assessment is that I am pay protected for the outbound leg in April as originally published before the DH, but that I have no pay protection for the return leg in May. I can't seem to find anything that obligates me to recovery flying.

What is my pay protection and recovery obligation?

That's darn near Doctorate Level CBA understanding right there!!!:eek:

The crew scheduling handbook is often informative but is not authoritative. They may try to work with you, but if you're currently an FO on the 717 or 88 they have very little if any wiggle room, I can't intelligibly comment on manning elsewhere. If it's RR you into a golden day or CNX the turn you can guess which one they will choose.

I did a complete word search of the PWA for "golden day" and "golden x" and the only protection I could find was CS could not assign you a trip into a golden X day. If there's more that I missed, I'd love to know about it.

I'm fishing in the fast reservoir of knowledge on APC for a PHD in CBA/PWA.

duplicate.

I would call regardless; however, I think your assessment is correct. I had something similar (but not exactly the same) happen to me and the pay was exactly as you described.