Stinks you guys got shut down.

Here’s a follow up on the vacation post with things I learned this vacation bidding cycle.

If you bid supp days that touch 01DEC-10JAN and you haven’t bought the days in the bank or you didn’t buy a 7-day block, you will STILL get your normal vacation awarded that touches that month, it will just disregard your supp day request. (Happily found this out first hand...it disregarded my supp bid and still gave me my #1 vacation choice)

You have to bid for and buy 7-days from the bank and you have to request 7 supp days during the primary, secondary etc vacation run. You must have the seniority to hold that week or your 7 supp days won’t be awarded.

You can’t add supp days to 01DEC-10JAN after the fact. Any other day of the year, minus those 40-ish days, you can just purchase from the bank and email or call crew scheduling to have supp days added to your vacation.