Originally Posted by
lowflying
As far as conflict bidding there is one and only one thing in AS's CBA that makes you say, "wow that's cool." Pilots can trade away single vacation days to each other in order to conflict bid the days off they need. One week of vacation over xmas can be very powerful.
A sick call works just as well, too. It's amazing how much time off 1,600 hours will get you; not that I would know, of course.