Originally Posted by
SVA402
After reading this thread all the way through I've read 2 different answer to a question I had about gateway travel. If your trip starts somewhere other than your base, can they travel you on a day off, or is that only to get to your base for a trip? Also, does recurrent and such count towards your 17 days? i.e. if you have recurrent in a particular month can you get a 17 day trip in addition to it?
Training counts towards your 17 days unless you bid a bid line which has the training on days off - then you bid with consent to work the extra days. You know when your training is scheduled before you bid - so the usual bid what you want and want what you bid applies!
This is also the case for working more than 17 days in a row from month to month - if you don't want to work back to back 17 day patterns then don't bid them. In that case if you can't hold a line you want the company will assign you a line with days off in between the trips.