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Originally Posted by PurpleToolBox
You put all of your vacation in one month during a month where you know the company will buy back vacation. You have to be senior for this to work.
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This is bad advice, a couple ways. If your looking to maximize vacation buy back; spread your vacation around in blocks no bigger than 7 or 8 days. As posted earlier, pick months that historically the company buys back vacation. When bidding vacation slots, be sure not to bid weeks that carry over into the following month. When the solicitation from the company comes, jump on it right away. Not sure if its meaningful, but the company reserves the right to limit the number of volunteers it takes on any given month and it either "first come, first served" or its via seniority. Maybe someone else in the know will chime in on that.
If you want to take vacation and cover large amounts of time off (say 60 days or so), than bid weeks you can slide into the prior month or the month preceding your vacation. Lots of little rules in the CBA about how and what to do, but if your in a fleet, with single departures and can hold these lines and touch your (original or slid) vacation, you'll be golden to get big chunks of time off. Just make sure you bid vacation weeks early in the bid process that reflect when you want to do this (assuming timing is important) otherwise, plan well ahead.
Bidding all your vacation in a single block will give you a big pay day and may be meaningful for some with unique situations (like retirement) but otherwise seems too restrictive to me, but that only my opinion.