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Old 11-20-2014 | 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted by DLpilot
As someone mentioned earlier, the best deal is to call scheduling on your last day of OE prior to duty out and ask for a blank line. You will have any day off that you want for the rest of December (hint...Christmas). It is up to you to fill up with trips from the pot. The key is that you get first choice on the trips before regular line holders. I have done this twice after training. I was able to fill the rest of the month easy and had a great schedule. You just have to be in a category with plenty of open time.
I've already got 21-31 December off as ** and XX days so wouldn't I be better off picking up open time instead? There is almost no flying for NYC 717 anyway in December. I haven't checked but I think there were only 20 trips total and most were day trips which would suck for me since I'm a commuter.