First, there’s no way this TA has PBS in it. Read the email the MEC put out. Small pay raise, minor changes to the last TA that was voted down.

Trip touching: the trips are dropped without pay but you are still paid guarantee for the month.

Example: I am awarded a line with 85 hours of credit with three, four day trips. I have primary vacation that touches two of those trips, both of them worth 22 credit hours.

I get paid for 75 hours for flying 43 hours (a “loss” of 10 credit hours), anything I pick up is paid on top of guarantee.