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Old 12-17-2024 | 05:38 PM
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If I have a 3 day 20 hour trip and I use a Vacaton drop, do I get paid 20 hours? Or do I just lose 3 days of vacation and get paid what those 3 days are worth? How about a 4 day 20 hour trip?


When is it worth using a vaation drop?


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Old 12-17-2024 | 05:49 PM
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Old 12-17-2024 | 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve Crewdog
If I have a 3 day 20 hour trip and I use a Vacaton drop, do I get paid 20 hours? Or do I just lose 3 days of vacation and get paid what those 3 days are worth? How about a 4 day 20 hour trip?


When is it worth using a vaation drop?


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My experience vacation drop isn’t worth it
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Old 12-18-2024 | 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Steve Crewdog
If I have a 3 day 20 hour trip and I use a Vacaton drop, do I get paid 20 hours? Or do I just lose 3 days of vacation and get paid what those 3 days are worth? How about a 4 day 20 hour trip?


When is it worth using a vaation drop?


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so it’s not day for day. If it’s a 20 hrs trip (doesn’t matter if it’s 3 days or 4 days) it will use 20 hrs worth of vacation time or 4.7 days worth of vacation.

Also vacation drops do not come from the current year’s vacation. They come from the following year and from DEC-APR, they actually from the year after next. So a vacation drop now would come out of may26-Apr27 vacation year.

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Old 12-18-2024 | 10:22 AM
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I’m feeling sick just reading this post
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Old 12-18-2024 | 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by ugleeual
I’m feeling sick just reading this post
I see what you did there 😂
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Old 12-19-2024 | 10:18 AM
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Speaking of which 🤮 I know this is a touchy subject with the FAs but are pilots being enforced to provide a dr nite on sick call outs
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Old 12-19-2024 | 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Clever27
Speaking of which 🤮 I know this is a touchy subject with the FAs but are pilots being enforced to provide a dr nite on sick call outs
No. The company knows better than to pick that fight.
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Originally Posted by ugleeual
I’m feeling sick just reading this post
Yup, it's going around for sure in LAX.. LOL

Merry Christmas, In Unity...
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Old 12-27-2024 | 07:13 AM
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do vacation drops need to have green reserve converage even if someone wants to pick it up?
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