Sort of. Several months ago more improvements were added to PBS. For vacations that start in one month and carry over, you can slide the portion of the vacation that is in the current month only.

Then, a month later when bidding again, if you so wished, you could then slide the remaining days in the second month to wherever you wished.

I hate to give out this advice, because the word will spread...but oh well.

Use one week of vacation bidding to bid a June/July spillover vacation, or Nov/Dec--or both. Then buy days from your vacation bank in March (you can buy up to 10 days). Append these days on either side of your vacations, slide as necessary, and voila, you have a June and July vacation for the price of one bid, and you have a Thanksgiving and Christmas vacation for the price of one bid week.

Pretty slick eh? Your (DALPA) PBS committee has spent years tweaking and improving the system. Some of this takes contractual language to boot, but the bottom line is that our bidding options keep getting better and better.