Originally Posted by
ImperialxRat
Why are they so worried about May vacation? Seems like an unusual amount of reminders that we can trade away May vacation.. if we are scaling back 58% of mainline flying you’d think they would just not care if we’re on vacation or not.
maybe I’m not understanding something about the scheduling side of this.
I think it has to do with the restrictions placed on one’s ability to bid an IL if they have more than 8 days vacay in the month. By extending the time you can trade away vacation days, it allows people to get under the 8 day restrictions and bid the IL’s. Maybe they see a lot of pilots that have more than 8 and need those pilots to bid the IL’s. I’m sure they’d much rather pay 50 hrs than 79. I’m guessing this is foretelling to the number of IL’s that will be available.