Originally Posted by
awax
Do what you want on you vacation, however, expect to get well deserved grief when you abrogate and water down the contract that applies to all pilots, including you.
Read Section 11 of the UPA and get back to us on the part that talks about flying on a vacation day. Will the company move a vacation day to cover a trip, sure they will, but then they do a lot of things that don't comply with the agreement.
If vacation gets in your way, don't bid it. At the end of the period the company will pay you 3.25 hours as outlined in section 22 and 24.
The simple-minded can't comprehend that moving a vacation day to a day off and picking up a trip is the exact same as picking up a trip on your day off, just shuffling days around. Are you going to condemn everybody picking up trips on days off? Last I checked there is nobody on furlough. Show me in the contract where you can't move vacation days? This is not your old contract.