Originally Posted by
Ottolillienthal
While vacation pay does go up, it doesn't break you even on a trip.
vacation should allow you to at least leave work for a week without having to pick up a trip to make up the difference.
The wide body pilots all fly 25 plus hour productive 3 day trips. An entire week of vacation doesn't allow you to stay home or go on vacation without losing money.
Why is that?
Vacation pay doesn't go up on the CAL side. It's still the same 3.25/day that we have now. The only thing that changes is that we get full credit for that time during the PBS run, er sorry, "preferencing" window instead of partial credit.