Originally Posted by
notEnuf
I've done the same thing with the APD for years, it was the only way until the IVDs came along. There are ways to get time off but vacation (the subject of the thread) is not evenly available through out the year. The disparity is 5 weeks available per period in the summer versus 25 in January and February. I understand there's more flying in the summer but not 5X more.
That’s not how math works, though. In a hypothetical base/cat of 100 pilots, you may have a surplus of 25 pilots in February. It doesn’t take 5x the flying to reduce that surplus to 5.