I will be polite and just say you are wrong. I warned pilots on this forum about it before the vote. Yes vacation time "still pays 3:15 per day" but because the 2:20 vacation factor for a 70 hour MPG did not change, pay during a vacation month will go down with no change in number of days of work. Maybe not for all pilots, how many pilots I don't know. For me yes, because I understand the contract, sat down and ran the numbers. I would highly suggest you do the same. Maybe you wont see a paycut in your vacation month. That would be great - but then you can thank me for giving up 20 hours of pay for my two vacation months next year because it nails me.

I even brought it to the attention of the MEC and in an email reply they said "yes you are right" and basically most pilots don't understand how this vacation compensation works. They knew that pilots have a weak understanding of this section of our contract and boy was it exploited and kept quiet. Again, that's where we are paying for this LOA.

Run the numbers and let us know how it turns out. Everyone should, so we have a better understanding of this.