As someone who has been moved up every year since I started, I have a few questions for you. Do you just call in sick a day before you travel to go to DAL? Following that, what kind of luck have you had getting scheduled the following month, assuming you were only moved up one month from your base? I've heard getting scheduled for the following months training can be a real goat-rope, for instance if I my base month was June, they moved me up to May, but I call in for recurrent next week and June's schedule has already been awarded, blank lines will be awarded tomorrow, and LEAD ops has already published the training schedule for June as well. What would somebody expext scheduling to do for the following month in that situation?

How about if they move you up more than a single month. Say they move me up 4 like they did a couple years ago. Say my base month has been changed from August to April and for some reason I'd love to keep August as my base month. Are you calling in sick to training for four months in a row? Mind you, what LEAD ops has told me in regards to these changes is that even with them moving you up a single month, they're also changing your base month. In doing so, they're saying they only have a one-month grace period to get you back into recurrent, even though you went through AQP only 8 or 9 months prior. Is there something I'm missing in dealing with training scheduling when it comes to keeping a month you don't want changed, besides calling in sick and rolling the dice for the following month?

And why, for the love of all that is holy, can't we have a training bid?