moon

Sometimes it takes a few days. In your case you won't hear back because you submitted prior to the 48 hr window. You need to submit it within the 48 hour window or once the month starts. submit it again and then submit it again after the first time is denied.

Pedro4President

Any request submitted by 4am will almost always get a response by noon or at the latest the same day. Like the guy said above all request for the next month have to be submitted after the 48hr window opens or during the month.

Another plug for QuickTrade. It has the 48 hour window on the calendar. I believe the ATTOT opening also coincides with when you can start sending RF messages and it is also on the calendar.

Dmaxvelo18

Ok, I'll try that. Thanks!

LineUpAndPay

If you pick up a trip with a deadhead in it, is the deadhead credit at premium pay? What about if it is critical coverage, are you getting 200% on that credit as well?

fatman

Looking for tips and tricks to maximize my one week of vacation. I know I can opt to dts and easily get a few days extra, but what tricks have you guys found to maximize pay as well?
Also, if the week I was awarded wasn’t necessarily the week that works best for me, who would I message and how do I go about trying to change it?

Pedro4President

So let's start with the last question first. For the next 50 hours the window will be open to change your vacation week. Go to my Envoy air website and get to the page where the bid packets and flow plan are. Scroll down pretty far and look for March 2018 available vacation link. It will pull up a document that lets you know which weeks are open. The request code is RF 100 vac. There is a thread on here with how to" tips. The window closes at noon on the 7th. It opens every month on day one and stays open for a week. Exact dates are on the document of available vacation slots.

I put my vacation on a transition week. That way I can get seven work days on the vacation slot. I also carry over one so I will be more senior and pay will be a bit high due to increased pay and credit. Also, as a CA it's common for them to pay 300% during the summer to work your vacation.

Finally I think quick bid has an option that lets you maximize your vacation pay.

highfarfast

Not having done it because I haven’t used vacation yet but some strategies I’ve been thinking about that should be doable to maximize pay AND get a few extra days:

1). Bid for lines that have a few days off either side of you vacation and high value sequence(s) during your vacation days. DTS doesn’t matter for this.

2). Bid for lines that have sequences with only 1 day sticking out of your vacation but the other 3 days of that sequence are high block days and DON’T use DTS. Once the trip is on your schedule as a 1 day sequence, trade it to another place in the month. Any 1 day can be traded for any 2 day.

3). Use DTS to maximize time off. Preferrably one high block day touches either side of your vacation with 3 low block days on either side of your vacation being dropped, then you have an additional 2 or 3 days off already built into the schedule for the trips that were dropped. You now have large chunk of days off but have taken a hit to your pay value. Make up the difference (and maybe more than make up the difference) by picking up OT on some of those days but leave yourself a little more than a week off for your vacation. If you go this route, I’d focus on full trips during the 48 hour OT window. They award full trips before partials.

3) As Pedro said, transition gives you the opportunity to do quite a bit of different things, perhaps even in combination with all three above. You could even use DTS on one month’s bid and not on the other. Also, a lot of lines have more time off built into the schedule at the begining of the month and other lines have 1 or 2 day trips to start the month which are easy to trade to other places in the schedule. I’ve got my one week of vacation ‘near’ the transition for these reasons.

Dmaxvelo18

Do you have to copy and paste the RF 100 VAC to someone?

havick206

No it should say done if you submitted it correctly

Dmaxvelo18

Well then apparently I have not submitted it correctly haha

What's the trick to make this work on DECS from my iPhone?