Hotwing,

We don't go to training on days off (12 days off min) except that lineholder International F/Os who are (or are close to going) non-current for landings go to landings class on a day off. One of the many wonderful nuggets in the sh!t sandwich known as Contact '03. Another chunk from C'03 is PBS, with pre-planned, known absences such as training and vacation paid at 2.8 hours credit per day. The PBS solver builds schedules around known absences resulting in no paid trip drops for conflicts unless training is assigned after the schedules are out, which is very rare. So when we go to DENTK every 9 months for the alternating PC (3 day event) and PT (2 day event), we get paid a whopping 8.4 hours and 5.6 hours, respectively. For most of us, that means working the same number of days in a month for less pay. And having vacation often means a low pay month. Just a few of the many things that must be fixed by the JCBA.

It's amusing that this thread drifted into a 570 bashfest. You might as well get used to it; you'll learn more about our various subgroups as the process moves along.

Edit: While we don't have to go to TK on days off, we are expected to accomplish the prereqs (exams, CBTs, videos) on our own time and without compensation.

Snake