Originally Posted by
1forflying
I would beg to differ. While your contract has more money in it than ours, I can hold 17-19 days off a month. When I bid for vacation many times I can get at least 3 weeks off. Some more senior guys can get more, while the more junior guys get less.
Well I guess it would be interesting to see where you fit on the seniority system with that regard, sounds like you have it pretty nice. I would say the top 20% of CA's and FO's at XJ probably feel the same way as you. But for us middle and bottom feeders, not so fortunate...I would give up a dollar of pay per hour to have another day off if that means spending more time with my family, maybe you wouldn't. Everyone's different and has different desires, high seniority guys want pay, low seniority guys want pay and days off so we aren't going to see eye to eye on all of this. Just saying I've read alot of comments on APC about how abismal 9E's current contract is. I would be curious though to see your guys latest TA proposal to see if it is anything close to XJ's current contract, but then again curious as to why our contract is lacking, compared to 9E's?