Originally Posted by
tattooguy21
Ok, so I've been reading the regional threads on this and several other forums. I'm going for my interviews next month and what I'm worried about are the things I DON'T know that I DON'T know.
My plan is make it through training, go to one of the "less populated" hubs (dc, the Ohio's) so that I gain line holder quicker, 1000 hours quicker to move up to cpt quicker (as long as there's availability at the location/cpts moving up/out).
But questions like those recently posted by stratapilot (ex.Do you have vacation touch?) remind me that you guys are talking a different language from what I know.
Basically, pm or post here all the knowledge/questions you wish you had known or asked when you interviewed/started.
I've read hundreds of pages in this thread, so I'm not looking for the basics, as I think I have a grasp on that. Like I said, there's just things that I'm not even aware of that might help to know and ask/find out about prior to the interview and (hopefully) accepting a job offer.
As always, thanks for the input.
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Vacation touch is a treasured contract provision at airlines that have line bidding. With line bidding your vacation was placed on your schedule first and the your line award was placed on top of that. If any day of a trip touched your vacation the whole trip was dropped. So, ostensibly a guy with a reasonable amount of seniority could turn one week of vacation in to three. Guys with a decent amount of seniority could link two vacation periods and have almost a month and a half off, and guys at the top of the food chain would disappear for a couple of months. Some places would still pay you, some wouldn't. It was glorious. Then came PBS and it ruined peoples lives forever.