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05-13-2017 | 11:04 AM
#7201
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Jul 2008
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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 | 11:18 AM
#7202
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Dec 2009
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K. Now that we have bid transparency, I don't have to just assume you're lying and making up numbers, we can all actually see for ourselves the truth.
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05-13-2017 | 11:27 AM
#7203
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,049
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From: I pilot
Yes, read the manual and I've got enough vacation hours to cover the whole vacation.
05-13-2017 | 11:31 AM
#7204
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Joined: Dec 2009
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05-13-2017 | 11:42 AM
#7205
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Joined: Jul 2013
Posts: 1,544
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From: 175 CA
Unless you're a FO on the 175 which is pretty fat on FOs for last year or so
05-13-2017 | 12:33 PM
#7206
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 285
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From: 737 right
The CRJ schedules in ORD are horrible now, most of the 175 lines have at least 16 days off.
05-13-2017 | 01:53 PM
#7207
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Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 1,082
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From: ERJ CA
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
#7208
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Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 1,606
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From: LAX ER
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
#7209
Prime Minister/Moderator
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
Generally yes. But it may be impossible in certain bases and aircraft with low seniority.
05-13-2017 | 02:49 PM
#7210
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Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 1,875
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From: Downward Dog
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.
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