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#5292
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Not always true. If you have a hard exit date, but no follow-on job to double dip, you may be better of working then selling the leave instead of sitting at home for the same pay and not selling it back.
#5293
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Position: 717 FO
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Any guesses if the new AE will impact new hire assignments for next weeks class? I saw they have 30 NYC 717 vacancies. Wondering if they will drop a bunch on the next class (or will they wait until after the AE bid closes)?
#5294
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Don't quote me, but pretty sure they have to wait for the bid to close. In other words, if a current seniority list pilot wants it, they have to be able to bid for it, then unbid slots can go to future new hires.
#5295
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Any idea which NYC airport will see the majority of the 717 pairings? I assume LGA? Although I've seen EWR-ATL is exclusively 717 presently. Could that be a way to flow NYC 717 crews into the ATL system?
#5296
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Scooter E6...first off, congrats on maxing out every last day possible to have such a long terminal leave. I'm sure it's been difficult not being able to take leave for over a year. I've been doing the same thing, but my retirement date falls on 1 Jun 15, so the most days that I can get is 115, leading to a terminal start day of 6 Feb 15. I do have a question regarding this though. Do you have to set a terminal start date with AFPC and/or your commander? Or can you just work past your planned terminal start date if you don't have a class yet, and then sell back what you don't use?
#5297
LGA sounds about right. The 717 is a perfect fit for the BOS shuttle
#5299
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True on leave. But you can put in for retirement changes. It's pretty painless. Not saying it'll get approved, but you can put it in.
#5300
Scooter E6...first off, congrats on maxing out every last day possible to have such a long terminal leave. I'm sure it's been difficult not being able to take leave for over a year. I've been doing the same thing, but my retirement date falls on 1 Jun 15, so the most days that I can get is 115, leading to a terminal start day of 6 Feb 15. I do have a question regarding this though. Do you have to set a terminal start date with AFPC and/or your commander? Or can you just work past your planned terminal start date if you don't have a class yet, and then sell back what you don't use?
Depending on your unit and command, they have a lot of flexibility. I have known guys to take an even earlier class date, in your case you put 6 Feb 15 as an availability date. Say you accepted a class date with an airline for 6 Jan 15. You could take permissive LV first (cause you can't sell permissive) go to airline class on a combo of permissive and personal. Finish your class and if you have 7 days between class and IOE, go work a few days at your unit. Then when you start flying airline trips, work a day or two here or there at your unit, just to make your leave zero out by your retirement date (it helps to work a Friday or a Monday and save a weekend of leave (one day of work for 3 days of leave saved)). If you have days left, you could STILL sell a few back at the end. It all depends on your squadrons flexibility. If you gave 20 years of your life, I think your Sqd CC could help a brother out!
Then you just double dipped for almost 6 months! Could be a life saver on year one pay.
Cheers,
Humboldt
Last edited by Humboldt; 08-29-2014 at 05:13 PM. Reason: Double dip
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