Originally Posted by
GunshipGuy
This seems as good of a place to ask this question as any since it's been discussed recently:
How do you buy vacation days? I see on a page in iCrew under Bank that there's an option. Does the option appear after all vacation has been bid for the coming year? Because as of right now, I don't see the option for the primary vacation week we just completed bidding for. I do see an option to buy days for the vacation remaining from last year's bid. Not that it's very clear on that page. Is there a resource one can go to for further explanation? I searched under Crew Resources and didn't see any help guides that explained how to buy additional days.
Side note: The search feature on this forum did show some posts on this topic, but when you click on the hyperlink the post the page that comes up is not the one that was shown in the search. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, because that has been my experience in the past for a lot of searches.
You can buy vacation for the next vacation year now. It’s option 3. They will pin the weeks to one of your awarded weeks (I’m not sure which one, but it doesn’t matter). You can call and have them move them to it the beginning / end The vacation period or a different period all together.
You can also add banked vacation days to a vacation bid (and / or add supp days) when you submit your bid. You can add days to the front and / or back end. Use the 12N lines on initial bid page (for SVAC right now)
Remember, right now buying extra days is automatic.However, once next years vacation year starts, you can only buy extra days the month prior and by approval of the company (which means it won’t be approved).
Hope this helps.