question. Wife is having a baby next year. I will go on FMLA for a month or so. Can I save my vacation to supplement my FMLA when I am off?

Something I'd call your CP and ask.

They can move unused vacation to your FMLA. So Bid your vacation to start after your intended FMLA dates.

I wanted to add this has been a great discussion on PD, APD, schedule swapping, and banking. I was able to drop a particularly troublesome single day of reserve this month, and got my schedule all cleaned up for next month just the way I wanted. Thanks!

EDIT: wish I knew the banking thing before, I flew over a couple X-days during OE and got PB days. The "problem" was the PB days were on reserve days I wasn't going to fly anyway because I was still in OE. Had I known then what I know now I would've banked those two suckers for some freebies later on. Oh well...

EDIT 2: Is there a way I can check on my current ranking of a new category and see my progress towards getting in? I bid the 73N in SEA but other than the general "that will go way senior to you" comments I've already received, I really don't know where I stand.

You can't voluntarily bank PB days. The only way to bank payback days is to hit the end of the month and have nowhere to put them, otherwise they are put on your next working day for the month.

Quick question:

I don't normally bid reserve so I just want to verify this.... Once you reach a total credit over the monthly ALV, you are full for the month correct? I have a few weeks of vacation this month, so my time card makes it look like I still have some reserve obligation. 65 hrs of vacation credit plus 15:45 of trip credit brings me to 80:45 where the ALV is 80. Time card still shows 11:56 of reserve guarantee.

It's not predicated on Reserve Guarantee is it?

Also, do I need to call and request to be shown FULL, or will they do it automatically?

Thanks!

Go to advance entitlements and then list pilots holding specific preferences in DBMS. It will give you a general idea but does not show what restrictions a pilot might have.

Well, not that it changes anything but I feel a little better :).

Awesome, that is exactly what I was looking for.


I saw in another thread that the number of positions for SEA was 50 -- is that 50 FO and 50 CPT, 50 total, or just a random number thrown out there by somebody guessing? If I saw anything official in regard to staffing it went right over my head.

Go into the flight ops page and sign up to receive the weekly updates in your email. There is a communications tab on the left side of the flight ops page. The latest update says it will be 25 CPT and 25 FO.

I read 25 crews for SEA 73N and 25 crews for NYC 330 in the crew resources update attached to SD's weekly update this week.

Good luck, E