That.

As for the touch drop vacation method, rather than making everyone play lawyer-pilot/PBS bidding expert whose vacation results depend on how awesome you program the system (among other things) how about keep vacation as is but increase the daily credit to something that actually means something and adds value and a powerful credit to your line. No PBS shenanigans required. As in 5 hours/day, minimum. 5.5 or 6 would rock the house for every one, all the time, regardless of how many thousands of lines of bidding code they wrote. A vacation week on one's schedule that builds in 35-42 hours of credit in a 7 day period would let every pilot bid around that as they saw fit and as an added bonus junior pilots wouldn't be punished by senior pilots "phantom" bidding trips that got awarded and then dropped during some special bidding slide technique. The problem with vacation is 3 hours a day is extremely weak for a line holder and downright pathetic for a reserve. Daily credit, not touch drop, adds the most bang for the buck for every pilot all the time...junior, senior, line holder or reserve. Senior pilots would, of course, get more vacation weeks (as they should) but with a 5-6 hour daily credit, a week's vacation would be a big deal to anyone, all the time, as it should be. No lawyer bidding required.