Originally Posted by hummingbear

This is purely anecdotal but the people I’ve known who flew for carriers with vacation pay all said it worked great. Enough senior takers who didn’t have holiday plans were willing to make extra bank that junior guys had an easy time getting holidays off. Personally I like the idea a lot because though it’s a little thing, for those to whom it matters it matters a lot. I’ve known plenty of guys who delayed upgrade specifically because they weren’t willing to miss Xmas & T-giving with their kids for years on end. For family guys, the ability to get holidays off consistently would be a HUGE QOL boost, IMO.