Originally Posted by
purple1day
Anyone ever have any experience with conversion lines. I have a R24 line in dec with Xmas off, but after reading the sig notes I am worried about an involuntary conversion and loosing Xmas, so I am thinking of volunteering to convert in order to protect my days off.
Never had a conversion line before. If they don't give you all trips can they then rebuild you R line with a different RP. For instance, give me a couple of trips then rebuild my line from R24 to RA. Appreciate any info if anyone has had e pertinence with this.
Thanks.
Happened to me last year, bid RA in 2 blocks (10 day and 5 day). I knocked the 10 day out with training and picked up trips early in the month during the view/add window. The other 5 days straddled Christmas (23, 24, 25, 26 &27), which was okay, because I planned to meet my wife and daughter in HI on the 27th or 28th for 12 days.
Then, right before VTOs were finalized, I got Crew Notifications for trips and saw they had converted me to a VTO for those 5 days, giving me a trip prior to Christmas and one on Christmas, which were no big deal, but I was also given an out/back on New Years Eve. I had ZERO input into the conversion.
Fortunately, I was able to trade that out/back, then drop the traded trip, and the Christmas trip had a DH out of ANC on the 26th, so I met my family a day early, on the company dime.
VTO = working Christmas, whether you're a regular VTO or converted.