Originally Posted by Utah (Post 2173384)

We bid in November for the next year's vacation slots. Each slot is a week long. The company figures out how many weeks you can bid for based upon hours in your bank and how many you will accrue over the next year. Depending on the size of the domicile there will a set amount of slots for each week. It's awarded by seniority of course. If you have three weeks available you can bid them consecutively, whether or not you can hold it is something else. You also list your preferences saying if you cant give me time off in July, make it August, or June... You need to be rather senior to get Christmas, Thanksgiving or time off in the summer. If you don't get the weeks you want you'll be placed on a waiting list.

Now that's for the master bid. At anytime throughout the year you can put in for vacation as well. If it's more than a couple months out it may be immediately awarded, or you may be placed on a waiting list again.

You can cancel vacation (with some restrictions on when), or cancel just parts of it as well. You're not stuck with it.

When you upgrade, transfer, or transition you lose your vacation slot. As senior pilots to you do that (or they quit) that vacation time opens up again and is awarded to those on the waiting list.

I can routinely get 10+ days off while only using 4-5 days of vacation.

Originally Posted by rvatornate (Post 2169980)

I hope it's doable, those are the classes I'm in. Anyone else here in that boat with me?

Originally Posted by Stevieray (Post 2173703)

See you there !! :D

Originally Posted by Stevieray (Post 2173703)

See you there !! :D

Originally Posted by Squallrider (Post 2173771)

Upgrade 2 years 4 months

Originally Posted by amcnd (Post 2173812)

Droping fast. I bet below 2 years by December..

Originally Posted by word302 (Post 2173828)

Not sure it's going to get much lower. We're just about to hit the spot on the list where classes started getting huge.