Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You can also easily get the 4th of July off as a junior line holder. Bid a 4 day trip on the first or 2nd of July. Leave the last few days of June open. After the July awards WS a trip at the end of June that kicks out the first trip in July. The June WS can’t be denied regardless of trip drops it creates in July.
Good one. I've thought about trying this before, with a backup of bidding to finish early on the 4th.
The 2 strategies I've seen work pretty well for Xmas are to:
1. Go on a YS frenzy early in the month, in hopes of timing out (I'm not a fan of working that hard for such a risky potential payoff)
OR
2. Strategically GS to have PB days roll over the holiday. I believe Denny Crane actually pulled this one off this year with a CDG GS (if that was actually you on our JS from SEA to JFK...)
Lots of crafty ways to get holidays off other than brute force seniority