Originally Posted by
pilot64golfer
No clue, but this isn't the way we bid vacation at UAL pre merger. Even last year it was bid using the old method and made sense. Now bidding in "bid groups" and if it can't give you exactly what you want, it just fails and gives you whatever the company wants you to have, is ridiculous.
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I disagree.
Legacy UAL vacation was horrible. You had to bid for a number of days, but you had to put a bigger group of days in the request and ask for "early, middle, or late". Who knew why a request failed or how to avoid making your vacation request invalid??
This system is so easy and logical. You bid for the week you want off, and then put other dates around it as your 2nd, 3rd (etc) choice. That's your first bid group. Perfect!
Now you make bid group #2 and go for a different vacation.
You may go for a summer vacation on #1 and then try to get Christmas off on #2.
I don't know how it could be simpler.
If the dates don't work out perfectly, you can always bump your vacation up to 3 days. I've done this many times already and they always move the days (as long as they don't touch a holiday).
They need to fix the bugs (wrong number of days accrued, wrong fleet), but I really like the new system so far.
I found the instruction manual to be very useful and simple to follow too.
Don't get me wrong....I usually complain about EVERYTHING. This may be the only change that I've liked so far.
