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05-13-2017, 12:33 PM
#7201
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Joined APC: Jan 2009
Position: 737 right
Posts: 285
Originally Posted by elmetal
The fact is over 50 people in ord have less than 12 days off. 5 day off blocks are just not as easy as you claim. 2 years ago, sure. On a fat west coast base sure. But out east, no way.
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05-13-2017, 01:53 PM
#7202
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Joined APC: Sep 2006
Position: ERJ CA
Posts: 1,082
Originally Posted by elmetal
Here's the thing tcco. You nee 10 days off.so you set it to 2.5 hours of credit. 25 hours vacation for your ten days off! Not bad!
But wait, you need 90 hours to complete a line, and now you have 20 workdays to fly 65 hours. Good luck. You'll have 6 on 1 off for the rest of the month.
So yeah your days off are off, but you not only pay for it in vacation bank, you pay for it by getting beat to death the rest of the month.
But wait, you need 90 hours to complete a line, and now you have 20 workdays to fly 65 hours. Good luck. You'll have 6 on 1 off for the rest of the month.
So yeah your days off are off, but you not only pay for it in vacation bank, you pay for it by getting beat to death the rest of the month.
The kicker was that I was able to get a couple of high-credit trips, including a 29-hour four-day (which I think was the highest-paying trip available that month; how I managed to get it, I have no idea).
05-13-2017, 02:21 PM
#7203
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Joined APC: Feb 2015
Position: LAX ER
Posts: 1,606
Originally Posted by elmetal
The 3 golden days if they fall on a day of a reserve line that works, you don't have to make them up, but you pay for them with user time. You can call and work them elsewhere to save usertime. As for vacation, you'll pay 4:12 per workday missed due to vacation, regardless of what you set the rate to.
So realistically to save vacation, you wanna bid the reserve line with the least amount of workdays within the vacation period if that make sense
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So realistically to save vacation, you wanna bid the reserve line with the least amount of workdays within the vacation period if that make sense
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So that assumption is wrong?
05-13-2017, 02:37 PM
#7204
Prime Minister/Moderator
Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: Engines Turn Or People Swim
Posts: 39,293
Originally Posted by amcnd
The fact is 90% of the pilot group finds it easy to Get 7-10 days off twice a year... the 10%'rs are on here complaining thry don't because there not doing it right... Nd i have more 4-5 day off blocks then i ever care to have..
05-13-2017, 02:49 PM
#7205
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Joined APC: Feb 2015
Position: Downward Dog
Posts: 1,877
Originally Posted by Blackwing
You never know. I fully expected to be worked to death around my vacation but ended up with this beauty for March, bidding about 69% in SLC:
The kicker was that I was able to get a couple of high-credit trips, including a 29-hour four-day (which I think was the highest-paying trip available that month; how I managed to get it, I have no idea).
The kicker was that I was able to get a couple of high-credit trips, including a 29-hour four-day (which I think was the highest-paying trip available that month; how I managed to get it, I have no idea).
You are a resource that needed to be utilized, they globalize and 68 hours of block+ vacation happened.
Other times PBS (depending properties) will work junior guys almost nonstop (30 hour overnights) before and after vacation with low paying trips.
05-13-2017, 02:53 PM
#7206
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Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: Engines Turn Or People Swim
Posts: 39,293
Originally Posted by WesternSkies
Other times PBS (depending properties) will work junior guys almost nonstop (30 hour overnights) before and after vacation with low paying trips.
You have to waive something to do more than six days at work using 30 hours overnights to reset 117. Policy is you get two days off after six on, unless waived by you.
05-13-2017, 03:21 PM
#7207
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Joined APC: Apr 2015
Position: CRJ
Posts: 372
I am in a similar spot with 8 days of vacation end of June, looking for tips to not get raped the rest of the month?
05-13-2017, 03:32 PM
#7208
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Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: Engines Turn Or People Swim
Posts: 39,293
Originally Posted by Tippy
I am in a similar spot with 8 days of vacation end of June, looking for tips to not get raped the rest of the month?
If you use a higher vacation burn, that will make the rest of the month easier but of course deplete your bank faster.
I always use 2.5, to maximize the time off which I can schedule far in advance vs hoping for some days off in the bid, which may or may not be where I want them.
Also...you guys know you can also use user time for vacation, right? You just have to not blow it all on sick calls, missed commutes, etc.
05-13-2017, 04:14 PM
#7209
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Joined APC: Dec 2009
Posts: 1,464
Oh user time? The one where we accrue 20 hours a year? Right... One 4 day sick call a year. Yay
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05-13-2017, 04:50 PM
#7210
Newbie
Joined APC: Jan 2017
Posts: 125
100th 175
I see the 100th 175 (Delta Connection) was delivered to Boise. Also, we have already delivered our last of 12 175s for 2017 to United according to their website.
Any one know how many more 175s are coming online this year and for which partners and where they will be based?
Any one know how many more 175s are coming online this year and for which partners and where they will be based?
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