Originally Posted by
Abouttime2fish
So I did it in the Feb bid period, but what I did was..
1. Purchase days via bank on icrew
2. Submit a smart sheet to place the days where I wanted them
id guess they are trying to get their new app to work to place the days??? 6-7, Delta IT AFU again.
I did this as well. Seems the glitch is fixed thankfully.
Originally Posted by
MSP7ERB
I've never understood the value in purchasing vacation days. It takes a lot of money away from the paycheck just to add a few days to a vacation. I'll take the money now and just bid some days off around my existing vacation. What am I overlooking?
Too go into probably too much detail, I only had one month last year where I had over 80hrs of straight pay, so I figured I better bank everything over 80. At the very least if I withdraw it the next year there's a slight bump in pay. I decided to use that to try out buying vacation.
I was hoping to get one week of summer vacation (did not
) and buy a week before/after that to make it 2 weeks. There's no way in h3ll I'd be able to hold TWO weeks of summer vacation. If you buy vacation during initial bidding or between 21FEB to 31MAR where the days are placed
does not require Company agreement. That would basically get me the whole month off, and more importantly I would have 100% confidence that I'd have those 14 days off. For a family vacation we don't mess with nonrevving so we could buy tickets right now instead of when the July bids come out and then travel to Europe or whatever.
Maybe next summer. Man, I wish we had better vacation rules and nonrev PS passes/FCFM, etc. (I put it in my contract survey)