Tailwinds CA Ron.............

FDX Vacation is as follows:
Yr 1-5 15 days
Yr 6-10 22days
Yr11-20 29 days
Yr 20+ 36 days

Each day is worth 6 CH's. That is converted to a Vacation Bank.

With 15 days the bank is 90 hrs. Min days is 7 together. I can take the 7 day vacation block and slide it up to 5 days either direction to conflict trips. If I can't or don't want to slide it I can expand it to knock out (6ch's x 7 days= 42 ch's) up to the 42 CH's + 6 for a total of 48 ch's. Those credit hours come out of the bank. For my remaining 8 days I have CH's equal to what I didn't use in the first block of 7 days. Or could bid all 15 days together. The net effect is that I will get every CH of vacation that I earned whether I bid reserve, a line, or have a direct conflict with a trip or not.

Generally, our work day pays 6 CH's or 6+24 CH's depending if it a trip rig trip, block time trip or a min pay per duty period trip.

36 days of vacation is 3 full 4 week bid periods off at full pay.

That's it in a nutshell......

Thanks for the explanation. Time to add this to the list. :)

Here, here. It's getting harder to list my wants in order anymore. Lately it's:

1. Scope (DCI Sunsets as ACL always eloquently puts it :) )
2. Payrates (W2) = SWA
3. Workrules: Min Day instead of DPA, Reserves time = Lineholders time, etc
4. Vacation/Training Credit that also have Min Day Credit. PBS can be programmed to take care of this crap. No more pre-award credit, unless is can be slid like FedEx above.
5+ Actually if we got all the above, I would be fine with leaving everything else alone :D

Contract survey will be interesting

Don't forget "calendar day", which means every day the trip touches, you get a min of 5:15. No more 3 day trips with an allnighter only worth 11 hours...

Amen. I've been preaching this to everyone I fly with!

We had vacation slide at NWA. Many want it back.

Would one of the moderators mind adding the CRJ900 payscales from our contract to the payrates in the DAL profile. I know we dont have them (maybe never will), but I think it would open some eyes. To be fair I actually think many of our older brethren think that DAL would make much more flying those 76 seaters when in fact some credit needs to be given at the contract advances the regionals have made in the last several years. The current Pinnacle contract actually tops out higher in the left seat of that 76 seat jet than a DAL CA could make with our own payscales.

Simply stating regional operators are taking our jobs because of their payscales is simply false. We ALL know our pay is fairly miniscule to the actual cost of operations. So several dollars an hour is a difference of less than a dollar a ticket.

Here's to wishing you guys would stop your arguments and focus that enegry on the real tasks at hand. ;)

On another note I too knocked myself back to RSV next month with my very strict request of off days so if any of you RSV gurus want to hand out any trade secrets or witchcraft that might make life better by all means fire away! :D

Anybody get the final count for early outs? LAX base visit says it was at 187 as of yesterday.