Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
So, a pilot at SWA or FedEx who has seven days of vacation and bids a reserve line gets what? Assuming a standard domestic reserve line of 4 on 3 off, doesn't he too wind up with only 4 fewer on call days for those 7 days of vacation?
I have no idea -- I'm just asking. That is certainly the way it worked at Delta before PBS.
What I was getting at is vacation value. Let's talk SWA. 2 weeks of vacation gets you the full month off or prob greater than 70 TFPs depending on if you value time off or money, and seniority weighs a little on effectiveness since it is based on what you can bid and touching trips. It is obviously hard to compare apples to oranges, but I would say SWA vacation would be valued, on average, to be about twice what DAL gets.
Accept it or not, and someone from SWA can weigh in, but I'm standing here with two SWA pilots who I know very well.
Basically what I am saying is there is plenty of ammo out there to provide leverage to improve our vacation system if the data is presented correctly. T says he thinks it's great and he's happy.