Originally Posted by
Mudhendrvr
If you place your MLOA dates in before the bid, it will decrease your reserve guarantee (PROJ is how it is displayed, I believe) if one of the "awarded" reserve days falls on that day. If it does not, then you do not lose that dayThe hours it "costs" you is 3.8 per mil leave day (which is 30/18). The system basically pays you that amount of time per day and if you drop that day, you lose that pay. If you place your MLOA before the bid, it also reduces your ALV since you will not be available to fly for those days. Hope that helps. The PWA has a section on MLOA and how it will affect you. I don't remember the section, but it would be worthwhile to read it.
That sounds like what's happening. Is that legal? I thought the purpose of putting in MLOA pre bid was such that scheduling can work around your MLOA days and still give you guarantee. I suppose if you were a line holder and dropped 2 days the entire month they'd be able to still build you a REG line. However, if you dropped multiple days, at some point they'd be unable to build you a line withing the line construction window. Perhaps it's to make RES MLOA fair with REG MLOA. A reserve guy could easily still get his days. Instead, I get penalized. I don't think I will pre-drop (MLOA) again.
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