Originally Posted by
JungleBus
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?
Worked for me to drop a Christmas trip--I'm a Jun 14 hire.
It
appears [I don't really know] that they run the APDs without regard to the Holiday when the reserve coverage is above required--thus, if you get in front of the line to drop (via burning the APD), the fact that it's a Holiday won't restrict the outcome. Once the coverage goes below the required, that's when the 25% logic kicks in--including the part where it can be denied outright if it includes a Holiday. Also, when I was asking this question in Nov (re my Dec plans), some of the old heads pointed out that sometimes you can get a Holiday APD even below the required--apparently there's some discretion on whether that gets applied or not.
If it's worth burning the APD to you, and you're pretty sure you
won't get it via PD or swap board--then I suspect the APD will work.