Originally Posted by
EskimoJoe
As per normal. Alaska comes up with the worst leave programs and our MEC buys off on this garbage. No early outs offered. Month to month 50 hr no-fly incentive lines if you can hold them. How many? Which bases? Who knows? Not eligible to bid incentive line if you have any pre-credit accruals for the bid month beyond a single day of vacation. i.e. if you have recurrent, you CANNOT bid an incentive line. Why? WTFK? You can take an unpaid voluntary though and get just the training pay. Great. Can’t plan beyond the next bid. Flying the line and selling severely discounted tickets is doing the exact opposite what the CDC says to do.
I wanted enough pay to cover the bills for a few months, save the company some money AND do my civic duty not to aid the spreading of the virus. Our MEC negotiated a program that makes all of this impossible.
You can bid incentive if you have 8 or less days of vacation, not just one. Read it carefully. Vacation days paid over and above the 50. Total BS that you can’t bid it if you have training, MEC didn’t fight hard enough for that, or didn’t want to. It had to be discussed. Would be curious as to company’s reasoning on not allowing it.