Negative. Only mandatory displacements I believe.

 

Eligible pilot" for the purposes of Section 6, means a pilot who intends to complete or completes an eligible move and:
a. converts into a position at another base via an MD or VD, or
B. converts into a position at a new or re-established base within 12 months of the first pilot conversion at such base, or
C. transfers from a closed base within the 12 months preceding the base closing, or
D. is recalled from furlough to a base other than their furlough base, or
E. otherwise transfers to a base at Company request,
F. provided:
1) they actually move their household goods and personal effects to a new permanent residence that is within a 125 straight-line statute mile radius of the airfield reference point at their new base or of any co-terminal airport at their new base, and
2) their current permanent residence is not within such radius, and
3) they actually establish their home at their new permanent residence, and
4) their new permanent residence is at least 50 straight-line statute miles closer to the airfield reference point at their new base than is the permanent residence address from which they are relocating

 

New base, yes.
Closed base, yes.
Displacement, MD or VD, yes.
AE, no free move for you.

*lots of caveats to the above, read Section 6

Edit: Ar beat me to it.

 

Delta in the news again. This one is really weird. And is SLC engines off de-ice?

cliff notes - man accesses ramp, crawls into A220 engine on de-ice pad, found dead

https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-found...g-plane-engine

 

Weird.

SLC deices with engines running. They were probably sitting there shut down for a flow time to San Fran.

 

"At around 10:10 a.m., police and airport workers found the man unconscious inside a wing-mounted engine of an occupied commercial aircraft on the deicing pad, the department said. The aircraft’s engines were not running at the time."

Think the article said AM when they meant PM. The only cancellation I see on SLC-SFO yesterday was DL2348. Pushed at 21:33, then RTG then cancelled. Extra section was run on a 320 this morning.

 

Funny technological breakethrough.. My 16 yr old, who has never seen anything besides a smart phone, was handed a flip phone. She was scrolling through the basic apps trying to figure out how to make an outgoing call. To her it was mind-blowing that you could just dial and hit call. Of course, that assumes you actually know anyone's phone number.

 

Random question, how does one see how much vacation time they have accrued with which to bid vacation for the following year? I returned from long term leave and so have a different-than-standard amount, but I'm not sure how much exactly. The vacation bid page in iCrew doesn't show it, and the VTS page doesn't show anything for this year because I don't have any and says "ONLY CURRENT, NEXT AND FUTURE BEGIN DATES ALLOWED" if I choose the April bid period, which doesn't make any sense at all.

And OMG this silly Auto-Saved notification...burn it with fire!!!!

 

Nevermind, found it. iCrew->Bids->Vacation->Initial Vacation Bids->Display Individual Vacation Days to Bid

 

I managed to earn some PBs in Dec. I'm planning to try and use them in Feb. First choice would obviously be to bid for a line and get a high credit 1 day trip and then use that to cash in the PBs. Assuming that doesn't work (not senior enough) is the next best thing to snag a high credit 1 day off the Pilot Swap Board? It seems like people start posting their trips there as soon as the PBS awards are posted.