Well, that explains the text message I got.
I was supposed to do MEM-JAN, overnight on a nice, cushy 11 hour overnight, then do JAN-DTW-ABE-DTW-TYS the next day. Then JAN cxld due to mx. So, we're required to call scheduling. CA and FA both get PNRs for a DH to DTW the next morning. I'm thinking "SWEET! I get to sleep in my own bed tonight." I get "Uhhh, hold on. We're gonna send you to XNA." Fine, I like that hotel better anyway. Huh? Flight leaves at 11:30 pm? It's 6 pm, and I started at 1 pm, so I've got tons of duty time left. No getting out that way. "How much rest am I gonna get?" Oh, exactly 8 hours b/c we're gonna delay the departure in the morning. Uh....great. Except I'm on reduced rest the next night, too. If you reduce my rest tonight, I've got to have comp rest tomorrow. Scheduling: "Uh.....Um....we'll call you back."
The plan was to have me do 8 hours in XNA, then extend my RR the next night 40 minutes to give me my exact 10 hours for comp rest. I'm thinking "Great. Bear min rest two nights in a row." Then they couldn't figure out how to get me to DTW to pick up with the rest of my crew. So, I lucked out. The next day, after my 8 hours of "rest," I got XNA-MSP, a DH to MEM, and was done. Originally, I was supposed to get home around 6 pm, but we hauled ass to MSP, and I made it on an earlier DH home. Needless to say, when I caught back up with my orginal crew the next day, they were a little jealous of my easy day compared to their hard one in and out of snowy DTW.
That's just a case of where it can SOMETIMES work in your favor. More often than not, you're left dangling and trying to teach some new scheduler how to do their own job since they were just thrown to the wolves.