I would not say unfortunately. I would say thank god you can't sell back your vacation. If we could we would have pilots furloughed. The ability to sell vacation and bid around vacation has cost us a huge number of jobs. Many on here scream about scope but they refuse to accept the reality of how many jobs have been lost to work rules. If tomorrow we changed vacation to pay and credit instead of pay and no credit they would have to post a AE for hundreds of Captains positions. Any junior pilot should put on his contract survey that vacation in the next contract becomes pay and credit.
The lack of concern over work rules and the massive job loss they have caused by junior pilots amazes me. I once had a new hire flying with me. He *****ed and *****ed about the fact that we had a cap and at his regional airline he could fly as much as he wanted. I asked him how much he would fly per month if we did not have a cap. He said he would often fly 100 hours. I said your wrong. If we did not have a cap you would fly 0 hours because you would be furloughed and on the street jobless. I still don't think he got it.