Originally Posted by ranger3484

I keep getting a pop up in iCrew telling me to remember to bid my golden days for recurrent training. It tells me that I'm available for training between FEB 2011 and APR 2011. I've got vacation right in the middle of possible training (from 27FEB-05MAR).

Two questions.

1. I'm making vacation plans for this time. Can they schedule me for training over my vacation? What's the likelyhood?

ranger:

No. You can't train over vacation. Won't compute.

2. I went in and listed my golden day request to cover my vacation time. The repsonse from iCrew I got was "Training Request Accepted", almost as if I was asking for training on those days (vacation). Are these "golden days", the same as in the reserve system? Did I just screw myself......again?

Adust the Golden Day Window to precede your vacation, in that month, and to cover any other days in the remaining two months you need/want to avoid training. You may still fly/RES those days...Training exclusion only.

Bottomline, I've been with Delta for 3 years and this is the first week (yes one week) of vacation I've truly gotten since I've been here. RA made a comment the other day about how DL provides for vacation accural for military guys while on MLOA. Well....not so. This is the first 7 days in a row I have gotten completely off since 9/11/01 and I really don't want it messed with.