you bid vacation based on the position you will hold on 31 Jan. Once you convert to your new category you lose your remaining vacations and have to rebid them. If its a new category not a big deal as they have to put in weeks throughout the year to be bid. If its a existing category kind of sucks because you wont get anything good. You can however sometimes work a good deal out via the vacation moveup process if a guy with good vacations moves up or out of the category.

Note, If you are a MD you keep your existing vacations!

Storm Stories?
 

As I relax in the splendor of the Rockville Center Inn (I commuted in a day early due to the weather), I'm wondering if anybody got any good or bad deals from crews schedules as a result of the weather.

Any good stories?

Has anyone received their new health insurance cards and pw from UHC yet? Thought I would have seen them by now....

They should be here this week, or so I was told.

Nope. Haven't seen mine yet.

No, but I got my Delta Dental cards yesterday. Nt sure about UHC, I picked Option N which I assume is now administered by UHC, but was BCBS under NW.

That is a good question. If they weren't wholly owned, I think they could just paint them in their own livery and do what they want with any size airplane in a charter department. I don't know how our scope protects charter operations, but if they got some 100-seaters doing charters Delta could move alot of the narrowbody charter business to CPS.

You mean like a previous 727 operator under the Nwa side...:eek: theve spent slot of money on the conversions in our airbuses and the teams really like them, I doubt they outsource the charter ops as it's profitable as is. plus the NFL/NBA/NHL etc teams aren't going to want to fly in an E-jet, they're nowhere close to as comfy as the buses and other planes we use.

Question for anyone...

as a 757 soon to be 7ER qualified based in DTW, how long would a freeze be for a 7ER and 767-400 out of JFK? thanks for any input...