Originally Posted by
Columbia
You mentioned a few pages ago that one great contract item to grab is vacation touching any trip causes the trip to disappear. That sound nice, but is there any way it could be implemented with PBS? It's obviously easy with traditional line bidding-find a line that matches up with your vacation and wala, 3 days off, 4 day trip, 7 day vacation, 4 day trip, 3 days off turns into 20 days in a row-OFF.
Just thinking out loud. Thx.
Hey Columbia,
Based on my former life, here's how to do it, even with PBS : after PBS lines are published each month, you are allowed to " slide your entire block of vacation days a total of 5 days in either direction. Any trip that the "slide" touches is dropped, but you retain the pay credit.
After the "slide" you may further "expand" your vacation in either direction as long as you don't bump into trips that drop more than a 1day of vacation greater than your vacation day award. Again, you keep the pay credit.
No limit to trips dropped with the "slide" and fine tuning with "expand" to improve your schedule and gain an additional day off, at full pay.
There has to exist an appropriate amount of time after the bid is awarded each month, to allow vacation holders to slide/ expand their vacations.....these dropped trips can be added to partial lines to make up additional lines of flying instead of dumping them on reserves.....
PBS does not have to be the death of the former good deal vacations. ACL, what say you ?
Regards