Originally Posted by
MrBogardi
For trip trading it has to be a trend. Mr Smith gives all his good trips to Mrs smith. Mrs Smith no longer has to fly all the undesirable trips that all her classmates have. Mr. Smith opens his schedule to accept more 200% flying (which is awarded in seniorty). Sure you can give away a trip or two but if it’s a complete schedule swap every month then that should be addressed.
Who took all of Mrs Smith’s crappy trips? How did she open her schedule entirely to accept the husbands schedule?
The Hawaiian vacation system you can request vacation all year. There’s really no need to trade. I guess you could always reach out to someone and tell them you will be vacating a certain period and ask them to vacate their vacation in return for the info.
It kind of sounds like vacation isn’t much of a thing at Alaska. You either end up selling it all back to the company or picking up over it. If you do the math. If 2,000 pilots sell back 100 hours of vacation then that is 200,000 hours less labor that the company needs to hire. Being able to work more and credit a billion hours isn’t always a good thing. What’s better getting 70 hours credit as a Captain or 100 as an FO?
I don’t work on vacation. Some guys choose to, but not everyone. I need my vacation to go the east coast to see family and for my own family vacation trips elsewhere.