Originally Posted by
Buck Rogers
To embellish...u have to put the swap in the template for the month you want to drop (future month) and change the month( or type in) the current month for the trip you want to swap for. The benny is, you beef up your current month for work and pay by reducing the next month max PU limit....thereby putting your WS next month above the swaps. Personally, I bid each month with the last week free of trips so that I can avail myself of this if I desire. I might also add....since it is a swap....you can blow thru the ALV+15 limit . Consequently, you can swap a future 1 day for a current month 5...6...8...day
All correct. The key you mentioned is you have to manually overwrite the month for the PU portion. I used it often to pick up a desirable trip in the current month and drop trash in the following month. Usually would WS a better trip in the following month. Since reserve coverage degrades as you get close in usually works even with poor overall reserves available. It’s also a good technique to build a big block of time off if you need it in the following month. If for instance your kids get out of school early June but you could not hold a June vacation you can easily build your own vacation with no loss of pay by shifting a June trip into May.