Originally Posted by
WhatNow
It was a very senior oriented system. As a junior bidder it was quite possible to get a line where no trip fell within your vacation or touched it and the vacation week became valueless.
I wouldn't say it was valueless. You got the value of the vacation bank for that week on top of your 75 hour-ish schedule and, as I seem to recall, the vacation day was a bit more lucrative than today's 3+15/day pay out. Ergo, you were getting about 100 hours of pay for working a full month with vacation whereas the current PBS system with high ALVs sets you up for 85-87 hours of pay and still working pretty much a full month.