Originally Posted by
Airbum
Whren you guys have your 5 weeks of vacation how do you bid them? At UPS with 5 weeks you can only break them up into a max of 3 different blocks i.e.
1 week
2weeks
2weeks
At Delta we have a maximum of five weeks which are bid in five rounds of bidding, so you could bid 1 week in each round, however, all the 'good weeks' are gone after round 1, certainly after round 2 there's not any summer weeks, or Nov, Dec and Jan, lots of March and April, Sept and October left over though!
We can bid two weeks in a single bid, in any of the rounds, but they have to be back to back, not split. We have a new toy called Vacation Slide which is great in that you can move your vacation days inside the month when you submit your monthly PBS bids, in case you didn't get the exact days you wanted in the vacation bids.
Before bankruptcy, we had 7 weeks total at 30 years longevity, but gave away two weeks in bankruptcy and never got them back.