Originally Posted by OpenClimb

The correct answer to the vacation question is NO. We do not have trip-touching as it is known by many other carriers. Your schedule will be adjusted to remove trips that fall within your vacation period. If a day of your scheduled vacation touches a trip **that never returns to your domicile** then the trip will be dropped and will be pay protected.

A concrete example:

You are DEN based. Your vacation week covers the 5th through the 11th. There is a 4- day trip on your awarded schedule that starts on the 10th. If that trip leaves Denver and never passes through Denver again until the final leg on Day 4 (the 13th of the month), the entire trip will be dropped and you'll be pay protected for all of it. If, however, the trip passes through Denver on the 12th, you'll have to rejoin the trip.

This is a long-winded example showing that we do NOT have trip touching for vacations. We have trip-touching-unless-the-pairing-passes-through-your-domicile trip touching.