Originally Posted by
higney85
Haven’t seen ya in a while. Hope all is well.. do you think @ 75% (I think that’s where you said you stand in cat) you would have held off the dates you needed as a REG? Not aware of holidays so just normal month @ 75%…
Things are good. I still love my job.
Short answer is yes, I've been pretty successful bidding my 2x 6-day trips Sunday evening through Friday afternoon (or M-Sa) on weeks I don't have obligations. It usually puts me in the lower end of the credit-window, but that is fine with me. I'm comfortable flying my trips and going home; not much schedule-manipulation or chasing GS.
The only issues I've had are months where I have pre-posted or carry-in credit. Then the math just gets messy. At 75% there's not a lot of flexibility on in-period credit so I have to choose to either 1) do a month of reserve to reset my 'no carry-out trip' strategy, 2) get specific credit trips and make the math work, or 3) just suck it up and deal with the month-to-month carry over math.