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Even better, send you a text and book you a positive space seat from wherever you commute from.

Sounds to me like once you hit 7 days without a 24 hr break you now revert to long call with a 24 hr notice needed for any flying...

but if they have you on call for 6+1 day then you're "working" 7 days without the 24 required designated rest. I believe you're saying that if they schedule you a trip on the 7th or 8th day that they'll give us 24 hours rest prior? Either way, that still has you responsible to the company for more than 7 days.

Point is that this is a very grey area that should be addressed for those affected. Delta is the only airline i've heard of that interprets this reg differently.

From the NWA 2005 CBA:

Also from the Delta MEC Scheduling Alert on September 12, 2007:

DOMESTIC REST REQUIREMENTS
We have recently received a number of calls regarding FAR domestic rest requirements.
With normal, reduced and compensatory rest, this is probably the least understood part of
FAR 121.471, but is also one of the most important FAR’s for a pilot to understand.
Rest, as defined by the FAA, means having no present responsibility for work. In domestic
operations, the FAA also requires that the applicable rest requirements be applied to
reserve pilots. Therefore, time spent on long or short call in domestic operations, or
performing any duty for Delta, e.g., deadheading, is not rest for the purposes of domestic
flying. As a domestic reserve pilot, you cannot be made to call or answer a phone call or
beeper during a rest period, although you can voluntarily answer a call or make contact
with the Company. Also, a pilot on layover is not responsible to be contactable by the
company.

The language that governs FAR domestic rest requirements may be found in FAR 121.471 as
follows:

§ 121.471 Flight Time Limitations and Rest Requirements: All Flight
Crewmembers
(b) Except as provided....

...In plain English, this means that before accepting a domestic flight assignment, a pilot must
be able to look back 24 hours from the scheduled completion of each flight segment and find a
legally scheduled “normal” or “reduced” rest period within the previous 24 hours. The rest
period must be in accordance with the table below. If the rest is reduced rest, then within 24
hours from the beginning of the reduced rest, the pilot must be given a compensatory rest
period, the length of which also depends on the amount of scheduled flight time as shown in
the table. Under no circumstances may a flight crewmember receive less than an 8-hour rest
within a 24-hour period.

Super, Coex did this to me once and gave me 24 hours off from day 6 to 7, and then had me work the 7th. I remember thats when I learned it wasn't a calendar day off but 24-hours off.

this .

From when scheduling calls:

Note that this is a fl ight limitation. A pilot may fl y for 6 days and train
or deadhead on the 7th day. A reserve pilot may be on call for any
number of consecutive days, but must have been released from telephone
responsibilities for 24 hours at some point in the past 7 days prior to
reporting for domestic flight duty.

Forgive me super, I'm just posting everything I can find that mentions it. Just sticking up on a "board" so we can look at it.

exactly, it doesnt have to be a Calendar day off, but you Must have a 24 hour period off. NWA would tag us from time to time and give us our break from noon to noon which would make it tough to go home. Most of the time it'd be a calendar day so we could get released early on day 6, be home that night and all day on day 7 before going back on call.

No problem, thanks for doing the footwork. My only point is that they have to give a 24 hour break and guys need to realize this fi DAL is going to start doing blocks of more than 6 days.

Once the AE closes, how long till we get the results?