Originally Posted by
ClearedToNowhere
Wonderful, I’ll accept that as a no!
Short notice refusal or something like that, mate of mine at big orange was saying they get X amount per year and they can call crewing and just refuse duties, even up to and after check in time. Blew my mind.
At ba they have 2 ways to change your roster... both have to be due to cancellation or substitution (leasing another airline to do the flight) - it can't be just at the company's whim.
If flight canceled 2 days out or more you become "assignable" over the footprint of the original trip and they can give you (with 2 days notice) anything they like and you have to do it. Can come back any time on the original landing day. No payment unless the new trip is higher credit.
If within 2 days there's a new thing called "reuse" whereby they can change you around but you have to be back within 3hrs from the original finish time. There is an extra payment if they do this.
I'm longhaul and probably get made assignable once or twice a year... invariably they put a JFK over the assignable days. But I've never been "reused", my guess is that's much more common on SH.