Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
If this was posted sarcastically then I apologize in advance. But.......
If your plans for the year never change then good on you! I don't know what I'm doing next month let alone for the whole year. I plan as much as I can but...........plans change and this is one way to try and adjust to the change. I don't see where this has any impact on seniority.
In the last 2 years I've swapped a week of vacation. One I needed to change the week at the last minute and the other a guy called me to swap because of a once in a lifetime opportunity for him and his family and I gladly swapped with him.
This is a way to better our quality of life and I see no problem with it.
Denny
None of this stuff is bad on the surface, and I totally get your example. neither vacation swaps nor pilot to pilot swap board sound bad. Then you get the example of trip parking rearing its ugly head--sharpshooting. I don't have a problem with sharpshooting, until it violates seniority.
You've seen the example on pilot to pilot swaps. The same thing essentially applies to vacation. I am a junior captain in Atlanta, but I have a very good friend who is #10 in my category. He can bid for any thing he wants. Since we are such good buddies, he bids for vacation over xmas--he can just bid it off on the monthly schedule. He gets my crummy early march vacation--as he can likely do a move-up anyway. I get off for xmas and New years--neither of which i can hold off-even on reserve. Viola. Meanwhile, the guy who could have gotten the xmas week of vacation--more senior than me, doesn't get it. if your plans for the year change, that's what move-ups are for.
This stuff ain't rocket science.