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Originally Posted by sailingfun
Do you know of anyone in the situation you describe. I doubt a single person would have the whole month off and be on a cruise and unavailable all month. Regardless however all you have to do is contact your chief pilot. You will be required to do the training before your first trip back.
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In this specific case, no.
However, I have personally had 8 weeks off in a row between a full month of vacation and bidding a 14 day trip early in the month prior to vacation and a 14 day trip late in the month after my vacation. I spent 4 weeks of that out of country, so yes it is possible to be unavailable for one month or longer. Not so much for me as I now have kids, but I know of at least one pilot (not a Captain!) that owns residences in Idaho, Chicago, Hawaii and Colombia. He is also shopping for a residence in Bangkok. Pretty sure he doesn't check his company email ... ever.
There are a lot of DAL-N guys that didn't check their company e-mail on a regular basis, because it just wasn't necessary. All of our schedule change notifications, including assignment to training were done via phone call to primary home number and cell phone if one was provided. In addition, all of the important bulletins for fleet specific ops, general ops, vacation and schedule bidding were available as links on the Home page of ATLAS after you logged on. The only important things I ever received EXCLUSIVELY via company email were:
Confirmation that an ASAP was received
Confirmation that there was no action required after ASAP review
Confirmation that a copy of my physical and licenses was received by Central Admin. (Only because I requested the e-mail)