Originally Posted by
744driver
A 30-day TDY that one can bid for a very high guaranteed payout...cannot be junior-assigned, and therefore must be volunteers...can be anywhere in the system, and is mostly a reserve line, but usually they get their pound of flesh by the time it's over!!
Up to 33 days, (or longer, actually). It's a high payout because of the large number days away - it pays the same daily rig as any other trip (4.85 hours per full day), whereas with Open Time or Vx days, you get an override of +2/+4/+6/+6 hours per day. And you don't get any extra time off in the previous/following month.
But, it's a guarantee, provided they don't decide to send you home early, which they can do as well.