Originally Posted by
cessnapilot
NO!
And in a month with training it will ALWAYS therefore be on days off with very little daily credit. Among other conflict opportunities lost it means MORE work days for sure.
Errrr, not really. At DAL, absences like training and
vacation come with a significant credit value. Those absences are pre-posted and the value added to line value. Vacay at DAL is going to 4:35 and CQ is 5 hours.
Line construction windows are plus or minus 10 hours from the average line value and you have control over what line value you want. If you set a minimum schedule, it doesn’t take much to get you in the window. So if you have and a ALV of 75, and 3 days of CQ (2 training days and a travel day), that’s 15:00 towards the line value. You then award trips out of the trip pool until you get to 65:00 if you want a min schedule, you’re done, or it keeps going if you want more.
2 weeks of vacation is 14 x 4:35 = 64:10. Depending on the ALV, one one day trip may fill you up for the month. Outside your vacation days, you are free to pick up time if you want or you can tell the system you want a higher line value.
In a PBS world, it’s all about credit towards your obligation, not a specific number days off.