Originally Posted by
iLikeMoose
New guy here with a question about becoming “full” on reserve. The reference handbook didn’t quite answer it.
I am looking to try to get the last 9 days of May off in next year. It would be great if I could put my vacation time there, but I don’t know if I can hold that. Schools in my base won’t be out for summer by then, so maybe it’s junior vacation time, I don’t know. Regardless, I had the thought to bid reserve and bid my vacation at the start of the month. That vacation credit would count towards me being full, right? So I could theoretically spend my vacation time (and the rest of the month) trying to pick up slips (or even stuff from the trade board?) and that would stack on top of the vacation credit, and make it pretty attainable to hit “full” in the first 3 weeks of the month?
Thanks!
If you have vacation in the month, you can slide your vacation to the end of the month as well as long as it wouldn't have unstacked on you on those days. Being memorial Day, that makes things more challenging.
The formula works differently. Your reserve guarantee is what you need to hit up be full. Vacation is an unavailable day so it reduces your reserve guarantee for the month but not by the value of the vacation. It's usually some prorata value as determined by the ALV. Check out John Bells reserve pay calculator on Deltanet/johnfbell . Com.
You cannot use the trade board on reserve. You cannot fly on vacation. You can YS to get full but if you bid or slip wrong you're going to be up Schitt's Creek