Wolf424

Yes…kind of. (If you haven’t been to johnfbell.com and used his reserve calculator, I highly recommend it…it will tell you how many on call days you’d have/X days you’d have). Vacation prorates the number of on call days you’ll have.

Unless your seniority won’t allow it, there are multiple ways to do this.

You could bid a line with the days off you need then else start next if you don’t get it.

You could bid reserve and put all your on call days at the start of the month and place all your x days at the end.

The obvious way would be to put your vacation on the week you need. (Keep in mind starting next vacation year the new PWA guarantees you off 48 hours prior to the start of your primary vacation)

If you can’t get the exact week you need, you could bid vacation on a different week in May and slide your vacation when you bid in April.

If you couldn’t get any weeks in May, you could place it later in the year and try vacation move up (processed a month in advance…see the SRH)

Finally, you could yellow slip as much as you could in the beginning of the month to ensure you’re “full” by the days off you need.

There are other ways as well (IVDs, PD, APD, etc) but these should give you a good idea on how to do it.

tennisguru

You cannot pick up any work over vacation days. Reserves can never pick up off the swap board.

CBreezy

If you have vacation in the month, you can slide your vacation to the end of the month as well as long as it wouldn't have unstacked on you on those days. Being memorial Day, that makes things more challenging.

The formula works differently. Your reserve guarantee is what you need to hit up be full. Vacation is an unavailable day so it reduces your reserve guarantee for the month but not by the value of the vacation. It's usually some prorata value as determined by the ALV. Check out John Bells reserve pay calculator on Deltanet/johnfbell . Com.

You cannot use the trade board on reserve. You cannot fly on vacation. You can YS to get full but if you bid or slip wrong you're going to be up Schitt's Creek

OscarRomeo

Is it reserve guarantee or ALV to be full?

CBreezy

Reserve guarantee. ALV+15 is the limit for what they can never exceed. That's why bad bidding and YS's can really get you into a pickle.

NuGuy

Just to clarify, they cannot give you an assignment to ALV+15 if you are at or over the reserve guarantee.

If you get back from a trip and you are "full", you are golden. If you get back and your reserve guarantee -:01, then ya, no.

FangsF15

To add even more color to the discussion, it is whatever YOUR Reserve Guarantee is (“RES GUAR” on the iCrew time card). YOUR Reserve Guarantee is reduced for things like Vacation, CQ, Training, APLA work, Pre-posted Mil Leave, etc.

When YOUR Reserve Guarantee reads zero, you have no further obligation to the company for the rest of the bid month, regardless of whether “FULL” is on your schedule. But as mentioned, if you are even :01 minute short after completing a trip, you can get screwed up to ALV+15 on the next period of Long Call. It’s not common, but it has happened, so beware.

PotatoChip

Where does one read one’s Reserve Guarantee?
Ive never come close to ALV, so never paid attention. I can see myself getting closer as an A however.

DWC CAP10 USAF

It's on your timecard

CBreezy

Time card. It says CREDIT+ RSV GUAR + OTHER GUAR.

The reserve guarantee column must be zero to be full. On a month that is purely reserve days, reserve guarantee will be your actual reserve guarantee and will go down every time you get used. In a training or vacation month, your reserve guarantee will be reduced by a prorata amount. I believe it's reserve guarantee divided by 30/31. That is your new reserve guarantee.

Also of note, a PD reduces reserve guarantee even more. It's reserve guarantee divided by the number of reserve days. So, if you are 3 hours short of filling up and you have 4 days left next week, you can PD. And now you're full.