This is true.. but toss in some lovely 11 hour 3 day trips and all of a sudden your vacation month becomes a vacation and then getting to work every day to pay the piper for your vacation.
I now see why everyone here uses single vacation days to manipulate their schedule. Using your days as a block for a real vacation makes your life miserable with bidding, step trading, and then boom somehow you’re still under required credit. It’s so incredibly infuriating.
You should be raking up dollar bills on vacation months with trip touching while not working hardly at all. The vacation system at Alaska needs a serious overhaul much like everything else in the contract.
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KnockKnock
Yeah, I know how it works but to use 7 or 8 days in one month and still have to work 16 days seems self induced. That’s 24.5 or 28 hrs credited to the month that you can drop. That’s most 4 days plus some. Most lines aren’t built to the min credit for the month so there’s usually a small buffer allowing you to drop a trip or two and not go below the min credit especially using that many vacation days. Even a 12 day off line has so many low credit trips crammed into the month, you should still be able to drop a few and not go below using 7 or 8 days. If you’re using less than that, say 1,2 or maybe 3 days, then yes, I can see having to pick back up after dropping a trip and working 15-16 days. All depends on how well you work the system I guess.