Vacation bid single month.
#3
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Joined APC: Nov 2013
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I'm not sure why you'd have to protect (or not protect) min days off. If you put all your vacation in one month, if you have been at the company for awhile, you'd have all days off. I would think the min days off question is irrelevant, though I have never done it.
Why would anyone want to put their vacation all in one month? So you have one month off and fly the rest of the year? That doesn't sound appealing.
Why would anyone want to put their vacation all in one month? So you have one month off and fly the rest of the year? That doesn't sound appealing.
#4
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He wanted to get his money at the beginning of the year, so he could invest it.
He figured he could bid around any days off he needed the rest of the year.
IIRC, he didn't have any kids, so didn't care much about time off.
He figured he could bid around any days off he needed the rest of the year.
IIRC, he didn't have any kids, so didn't care much about time off.
#5
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.
One week of vacation buyback = 7 days X 6hours + 24hours = 66hours
66 X 4 = 264 hours
264 hours + 85 (average line) = 349 hours
349hours X $287/hour (WB CA) = $100,163
And when you are senior you get the weeks off you need anyways.
One week of vacation buyback = 7 days X 6hours + 24hours = 66hours
66 X 4 = 264 hours
264 hours + 85 (average line) = 349 hours
349hours X $287/hour (WB CA) = $100,163
And when you are senior you get the weeks off you need anyways.
#6
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Joined APC: Nov 2013
Posts: 2,756
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.
One week of vacation buyback = 7 days X 6hours + 24hours = 66hours
66 X 4 = 264 hours
264 hours + 85 (average line) = 349 hours
349hours X $287/hour (WB CA) = $100,163
And when you are senior you get the weeks off you need anyways.
One week of vacation buyback = 7 days X 6hours + 24hours = 66hours
66 X 4 = 264 hours
264 hours + 85 (average line) = 349 hours
349hours X $287/hour (WB CA) = $100,163
And when you are senior you get the weeks off you need anyways.
And good luck getting four separate vacation periods during the peak months, even if you're senior. You got one shot for December.
#7
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Joined APC: Aug 2007
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Single Month Vacation
I think you have to bid it in at least 2 segments (i.e. no more than 14 days) and you have to be able to hold both of them.
That is why people who do this typically pick early winter months (or they are very senior)
That is why people who do this typically pick early winter months (or they are very senior)
#8
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.
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