Originally Posted by
avi8tor220
I know it’s a long shot but I’m at 80% on the A side in NYC on the bus. Any strategies to get the 24th off. Just want Thanksgiving day off. Don’t care if I have to work early in the 25th. Do I just bid reserve and hope I don’t get stacked?
Push your off days to the end of the month and then Yellow Slip everything until you fill up.
Never worked a Christmas using this strategy and I've been the plug in categories for years upon years.*
*(even when not "the plug" pilots junior to me did other tasks other than fly airplanes)