With all the schedule restructuring that DAL is going to do in the next few months you will see a lot more weird stuff come down the line. I'm sure some of the Dee Dee Dee's on this site will twist it into doom and gloom for us as well.
On a CS note, know your trip and your contract because they are self serving Dumas's. Finished an 8 hr reduced 2 day and they told my FO and then me to call back in an hour cause reroute was working something for us til I told her that we only had an hour and a half left in our ten hour day. "Ohhhhh, were you reduced rest 8 hrs last nite?" "YES....." "You sure were, let me tell the reroute that hang on." "you're both released." Imagine that! They conveniently forget whatever benifits them at the time.
Had this happen too. They can't tell you to call a Chief Pilot, see a doctor or order you to do anything for that matter. The CP will call you and tell you what you need to do. They have no authority to tell us to do anything, just notify us of an assignment or a change to one. CJ got all PO'd at me one morning cause she missed us at the hotel and we didn't answer our cell phone's on the way to the airport(you are not required to) and I called her at the airport on the station phone. She told me I was in trouble and had to call the CP. I told her to have the CP call me and I terminated the call. CP never called me.
