Originally Posted by
Gspeed
Here’s another deep-dive question. Let’s say you’re awarded some random week of vacation in December but not during Xmas. Prior to April 1, you add your SUPP vacation day to the beginning of that block of vacation. For the purpose of sliding vacation in a bid month, does this SUPP day become the new “beginning” of the vacation block (which would now technically be on a Saturday instead of a Sunday)? Or does PBS, for the purpose of determining whether a pilot has the seniority to slide his vacation to a different day in the month, still treat the original first day of that vacation block as the first day of the block during monthly PBS bidding?
As an example, you have vacation for 12/8/19 thru 12/14/19 because you couldn’t hold the week that contains Xmas. You then place your SUPP day at the beginning of that block, so now you have 12/7/19 thru 12/14/19 as your block. When it comes time to bid for December 2019 monthly schedules, let’s also assume that you don’t have the seniority to slide your vacation to get Xmas Day off. But you can slide your vacation to 12/26/19. If you do so, does your SUPP day now fall on 12/25 since it is placed a day prior to your original vacation block? Or in this instance can you still only slide the entire block, including the SUPP day, to start on 12/26?
Sorry to be so in the weeds.
The vacation has to slide as an entire block. The only exception is when you have a different week that is touching the first.
From the PBS Gouge:
Originally Posted by PBS Gouge
You cannot split a single group of vacation days including supplementary vacation days. They move all together or not at all. Please note that two different vacation weeks (for example PVAC and SVAC) that are touching each other are treated as two separate blocks of days that you can attempt to move