SAN Base opening, finally…
12-09-2025 | 07:10 AM
#301
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I agree, the AS discount which arbitrarily restricts summer vacation slots - needs to go. All summer long I asked every OAL jumpseaters, how long it took them to hold summer vacation at their shop. Either seat at SW/UA/DL it was a fraction of the longevity to achieve it. Sad reality and currently at AS, most can hold summer vacation when it doesn’t matter anymore. I.e. your kids are all grown up. RN this doesn’t affect me, but it might some day. Just like being on reserve again as a junior CA. I fly with enough naive goodjet types who never saw how lousy it can be when you’re junior. But the few who have senior friends that snag them a week or two of summer vacation for them are doin just fine.
Not to mention a week of vacation allows a junior pilot to bid RLL and skip being on reserve entirely during the worst possible months to be on reserve.
Not to mention a week of vacation allows a junior pilot to bid RLL and skip being on reserve entirely during the worst possible months to be on reserve.
12-09-2025 | 07:20 AM
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12-09-2025 | 07:25 AM
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In theory this could happen but that’s a little extreme. To be honest most of this blossomed out of decades of line bidding. CA’s and FO’s flew together all the time, carpooled from Terminal G. FO upgrades and can’t hold summer vacation anymore to take little Johnny and family to the San Juan’s over the summer so said CA gifts his buddy new CA a week of his summer vacay. I’m like Shy I don’t really see anything wrong with this. I like our current system just want more allocations during those 3 low months.
A big improvement in the last contract was vacation any. I believe it’s extremely under utilized by this group but can add good flexibility in your vacation months.
A big improvement in the last contract was vacation any. I believe it’s extremely under utilized by this group but can add good flexibility in your vacation months.
12-09-2025 | 07:26 AM
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12-09-2025 | 07:27 AM
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Ya I want this changed our first come first serve / premium / OT system is broken.
12-09-2025 | 07:27 AM
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12-09-2025 | 07:30 AM
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Section 6.K.7
Vacation time from July 1 through September 15 and December 20 through January 3 awarded and subsequently vacated before the runs are posted for that month shall be offered at the time vacated to pilot(s) in order of Seniority, beginning with the pilot just junior to the pilot who vacated the bid
Section 22.I.4.b
One-Sided Trade: One (1) Bid Run pilot may pick up a Flight Grouping from another Bid Run pilot (with their concurrence) for no Flight Grouping in return. Such one-sided trades shall only be allowed through an online trade board on a first-come, first-served basis. The intent of this provision is to allow a pilot to drop a Flight Grouping that they would otherwise not be able to drop due to minimum staffing. It is not intended for senior pilots to bid for Flight Groupings in order to drop them to junior pilots who could not otherwise hold them. If the MEC feels at any time that this provision is being abused, it may at its sole discretion direct that this function of the Program be disabled.
We have had issues with married people giving senior trips to their junior spouses. MEC warned them that they would lose trading privileges if it continued
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