Originally Posted by
Delta2heavy
Question, with the mega ae coming up, is there a way to try and bid for when you want to go to training? I don’t fully understand the bypass. If the ae is in March or April, the best times to train would be May or October obviously not wanting to train in the summer. If you are pretty senior in an award is there a way to control this at all? It’s not worth not bidding something for me but if I could control it it would help the family situation
Short answer -- no.
Medium answer:
1) You can bid to keep your vacation with no pay protection.
2) You can opt to allow junior people to convert before you with no pay protection.
Other than that, they've got you for the entire conversion window.
In light of the fact that there's only one substantial AE/year, you have a choice to make.