Originally Posted by
FlexNinja
Yea, makes sense. I figured if they existed, they would be fairly senior. Thanks for the quick reply!
Ive also seen reference to "conflict bidding" and im fairly certain I know what that means, but just to confirm.... this would be where you pick up two lines that have overlapping trips and planning then drops those trips cause they touch each other (or some variation of that). When do they drop trips or take things off your schedule as it pertains to "touching", either training, other trips, vacation or otherwise?
With conflict bidding, if you have a trip at the end of the bid period that carries into the next bid period and it touches a trip then trip #2 will drop in it’s entirety unless it transits your domicile. Scheduling does have the right to reschedule you on those days and unfortunately, they’ve gotten pretty good at it. Other scenario could be dropping your recurrent training in the middle of a trip and hopefully score some extra days off. Vacation is similar although there are variations to the rules that would take too long to describe here.
On another note, I hated turns but then again I don’t live in domicile.
And yes, the 74 guys seem to get lots of late arrival pay but I haven’t had late arrival pay in 6 years. YMMV.