Originally Posted by gloopy

I'd say so. Or at least we automatically sell 3-4 days of our vacation back, for no money, for every week's worth we get.

IMO we don't need more vacation. Even the 5th week is rediculous in the context of the current value we currently recieve. We need better vacation time/credit worth more. At least 5 hours a day. If that means one less week per year or it takes more years to get extra weeks then so be it but the current system is aweful, particularly for reserves who effectlvely only get 3 days off per "week" of vacation because of the horrible level of credit it pays. Some want to bring the 6th week back and that would only give the problem more inertia and make it harder to fix. Even worse are the ones that cling to the idiotic notion of "touch drop" where guys could bid 12 day trips barely touching either end and get a month off for every week. Well guess who pays for that?

What weeks one gets for vacation is and should be a function of seniority. But we do not need to create a system where one's seniority can leverage a month off for each week while junior pilots (in category) only net a few extra days off for a "week".

We don't need more vacation days. We need more vacation credit per day.