Sorry, the pic went missing, should be fixed now, go back and look.

And remember "first wave, open fire, second wave..."

FTB,

Could you do some of your photo shop magic and show me how to trade an X day? IE: I am on reserve 2 thru 11 with an X day on the 7th. I would like to move that X day to the 20th. Thanks.

80Kts: I will sleep much better no that you approve of my actions :)

In reality we are all just dogs sniffing each other out. I watch it and find it quite amusing.

I have flown with multiple NWA FA and all of them have been great. No I mean that. I take the time to ask them about where they are based, and what is going on on their end of this deal. They for the most part are very cheerful.
I had a crew that on the van that had just got done chewing the hotel manager a new one because their contract was not being complied with. They started to rag, the hotel, corporate lodging and the company. My simple response was, " Though it may feel great to chew the manager a new one, he takes it, then forgets it, and noting will be solved. All three of you need to fill out a hotel complaint form that is located on the Dalnet, and then only after DAL has proof and a series of events can they go to talk to the hotel." They cannot not just break contracts without us filling these suckers out.
In the end they were quite happy they were told that. Not sure what it was new news but it was. Point being a lot of them are just trying to figure stuff out.

The buffer is 29.5 and I have picked up to that threshold before. If you go over, you are still paid what the credit was.

I beleive that once it is on your sked you are pay protected.

sorry I couldn't deliver, they're working me too much lately to stay on top of the underboob/pancake needs of the lastest and greatest! I'll try harder ;)

Super, you have a smart phone, FtB can show you how to work its magic!

Looks like Denny wins the best answer contest again.:D I've seen guys bid for an AE after receiving a prior award. So one of three things must have occurred. Either the contract language has been changed at some point, or the company allowed them to re-bid, or it was a new catagory. Reading c. here, it looks like it is referring to the end of a freeze period for bidding an AE.

Oh it wasn't cause I didn't know how to on my phone, it was because they've got us flying all night on redeyes so I missed the underboob request ;)

To move an X day, you start with the reserve level screen in Open time for the new month. You can ask for a move without this step but it won't be approved until reserve coverage is in the Blue.

Go to PCS, select leave request (for the appropriate month) and then select "Move reserve off days". Then select the link at the bottom for "Add/Update Leave request".

On this screen you get to tell the computer when to stop processing your request. In the body of the form are priorities 1-4 down the left and to the right of each are a bunch of empty blocks. To move the hypothetical X day from the 7th to the 20th would be 7 7 20 20 in the blocks.

Here's the problem though with this hypothetical - you can't move an X day to a spot by itself (even if it was a loner to begin with) you have to append it to another block. There's another problem with the new system. Seems we can create 9 day blocks in PBS (domestic) but we can't create new ones in PCS. You have to expand ones already there.

Last note, if the reserve coverage isn't good enough to move the days, leave the request in, you never know when it'll be good enough!

Good luck

Most guys you see bidding on new awards probably got a award without a freeze either via a MD or just changing bases. We did have a exemption on the 1 year bids where you could bit again if you had not gone to training but not sure if that is still in effect. You can also bid a new category even if you have a freeze.