Originally Posted by
e6bpilot
I am personally in the any two weeks camp. The vast majority of pilots here don't want two consecutive weeks of vacation because it is pointless to have two consecutive weeks of vacation. If we started bidding for what we intended to actually use, these stupid shenanigans with bidding and trading to your cartel buddies or sugar daddies would stop and you would see a more equitable spread of vacation throughout the list.
I am all about seniority. The super senior should absolutely get the weeks of vacation they desire. They can do that, however, without block bidding 5 weeks of summer vacation that they will not use just to turn around and trade them out of seniority to their buddies. I once flew with a guy and watched him trade into a summer week for 5 buddy passes. Wtf? How is that any different than paying someone cash?
Originally Posted by
ZapBrannigan
YES YES YES 1000 TIMES YES!!! But jeebus forgive that I suggest such a thing on the line or the forums. How dare I take away their little cottage industry of using vacation weeks as currency... [emoji35]
What, if anything, is stopping the bottom ~60% of the seniority list from fixing this? Or do you guys think this is that what's likely about to happen with the vote in November? From the outside looking in it seems like a no brainier to vote in a new system that, while still allowing the most senior to get the vacation they want/deserve, is more equitable across the board.