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10-08-2015, 02:06 PM

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FDX: min days off protection with carryover

To protect min days off in the following bid period, does it matter whether a carryover trip was 1)awarded in monthly bid award, or 2)picked up?

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10-08-2015, 03:04 PM

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I am 99.99% sure that it doesn't matter. That you could even have the trip in PDO status or MUV, or anything. Min days off protection applies. However, I have been wrong about things before (once)

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10-08-2015, 04:13 PM

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I am 99.99% sure that it doesn't matter. That you could even have the trip in PDO status or MUV, or anything. Min days off protection applies. However, I have been wrong about things before (once)

, so maybe someone else can confirm.

Confirmed. Min days off rock!

10-09-2015, 08:47 AM

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Thanks busdriver12 and Dadof6. I really appreciate it.

10-09-2015, 05:57 PM

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I am quite certain that a trip flown in a status other than trp i.e. M/u, CIA etc waives days off protection. Something this important(especially this time of year) should be confirmed with crew planning rather than APC. IMO only.

10-09-2015, 06:17 PM

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I am quite certain you are wrong, as M/U and CIA are treated the same as TRP in the exact same way for every single thing except for which bank it comes out of---however, it would be a good idea to confirm it with futures, in these months in particular. And of course, what happens if the TA passes? Many different rule changes.

10-10-2015, 11:16 AM

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Yeah, I thought I was bitten by this once a few years ago with a carryover trip that was coded as M/U or CIA or maybe even MUV. I picked it up in the hope of protecting min days off the following month, only to find out I had to fly the C/O trip, without any possibility of dropping it of course, and the full schedule the following month. It's hard to believe I would have forgotten the details, but it's been a few years. I appreciate the feedback on here and have also written Futures. I will post their answer on here.

Thanks pmwc.

10-10-2015, 11:54 AM

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If there's any chance whatsoever, you definitely don't want to blow Thanksgiving, definitely check it out! One thing you could also do, is get it recoded. Have a friend pick it up from you on a one way trip pickup, then immediately pick it back up. I think that recodes it from makeup, to swap.

10-10-2015, 12:09 PM

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Thanks bd12, I had heard about that. I'll put that to use if necessary.

10-12-2015, 05:34 AM

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From Futures:

"Any assignment that is a makeup, cia, muv, etc., or advance volunteer, anything you choose to do to your own schedule, waives all, including mindays."

This bit me once with a CIA c/o. I cannot believe I didn't remember it more clearly.