Have an early report on Apr 5th that I'm trying to get out of as we'll be getting back from vacation late the previous evening. Right now, reserve coverage is good, 21 available and 18 required. I'm fairly certain that if I use a regular PD for the first PCS run, the reserve coverage will not be adequate by the time they get down to my seniority level, and the PD will be denied. At that point burning my APD does me no good, because it's Easter, so it'll still get denied.

I'm considering just going straight to the nuclear option and using the APD, because they're processed before PDs, and reserve coverage would likely still be adequate. However, per the letter of the contract, they could deny the ADP simply for touching the easter holiday, even if there were 100 reserves available and only 1 required. So here's my question to the guys who've been around a while: have you ever had an APD granted on one of the listed holidays? I.E., in practice do they actually look at the reserve coverage, or just automatically deny anything that falls in that 2 days prior / 1 day after window?