This month I was awarded 92 hrs, 17 days off with a couple vacation days. I'm in the 30% CA range in DTW.

ATL use to be a base... it wasn't very senior.. it was a very small base. (I want to say 14 CA's/13 FO's)

By a couple you mean 3-4, and you're top 30% in base. It shouldn't require using 1/3 (that's right, we get 12 a year at that seniority) of your yearly vacation to get 17 days off..

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At what seniority do you only get 12 vacation days? At xjt, a second year pilot is getting 14, which is industry standard. I know you guys are the most productive but I didn't realize you were that productive!

3.85% of credit is accrued. Let's say you get worked 90 hours a month, that's 41 hours of vacation for the year.

We "get to" pay 2.5-4 hours per vacation day as we see fit. So you're looking at 10-16 days a year. For anything below 5 years. Of course senior guys get it better. I'll post a screen. I used 7 days at 2.5 recently and ended up with 16 off. So stretching them by using them at 2.5 is not a good plan

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I was surprised at the pay too when I transitioned to jet CA. But that's the rough gross. PBS likes to assign 85-90, but I drop down (and drop trips) on the rare occasions it lets me. I think I'm getting more per-diem from multiday trips, and most awarded trips tend to actually block higher than scheduled. Our schedules do take me through flow-prone hubs a lot.

Being based at SFO seems like at least a 10% bump.

Not recommended for commuters however;)


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That seems like a ridiculously low amount of hours/days of vacation to me. I must be missing something. When I calculate the conversion, xjt pilots accrue:

0 YOS: .0292
2nd through 6th YOS: .0583
7th through 10th YOS: .0875
11th and subsequent YOS: .1167

Probably not. I understand we have about the lowest accrual rate in the industry.

I'll get about 80 hours a year to use. I can use it at a rate of 2.5 up to 4.0? hours per day. We get it as a pre assignment for PBS. I always select 2.5 hours per day so a week would take 17.5 hours. Now with PBS it's possible to get a couple more unpaid days off on either side or work the days right next to the vacation.. With 17+ years I get around 4 weeks off a year theoretically. The problem with using 2.5 is that PBS is still going to build you a 85-90 hour line. It'll force more flying onto your schedule to make up the difference.