TOGA LK

If this is true I will admit that C2012 was a significant move forward in this regard.

tsquare

Why would I lie about that? IMHO, There is zero reason to bid a regular line in a vacation month, unless you wanna work your butt off the rest of the month. And further, if you want to pump up the earnings for the month, you can add time from your bank. If you recently got a pay raise, or passed an anniversary date, that can be significant too.

Yeah, C2K sucked, didn't it?

DALMD88FO

Actually I don't think you can move anything if it is a spill vacation. When you go to the vacation slide preference in PBS it will only have a drop down on vacation weeks that have the ability to slide. The spills won't be listed. In the vacation weeks available it had an asterick denoting weeks that spill.

Denny Crane

April's bid period goes thru May 1st making it a 31 day bid period. That means with a reserve guarantee of 72:00 and 14 days of vacation in the April bid period, pay will be 84:59.

Denny

scambo1

I think T is right on his interpretation of what can be slid, but you are correct about the strateegery of having a spill vacation and working it out for max gain.

tsquare

Help me with this one. I don't see a real good strategy there with only one week vacation. What am I missing.

And Denny's right. 84:59 in a 31 day month, and 8 X days. Mo better. (Actually, that IS mo money, and mo time off)

tsquare

This could be a problem. I noticed this same thing when I was trying to work my bid with EasyBid, and it told me I didn't have any eligible weeks to slide. According to dALPA scheduling, I can move the week IN the month. Apparently the scheduling software has not caught up to the contract change. I'll make some phone calls and see what I can find out.

Edit: I talked to crew resources people. Very very helpful. But, we didn't get into specifics. She said that there is a notepad on the Crew Resources page about how to do this. She suggested reading that and that it would describe how to do this. So I am throwing this out there without having read it myself in case some of you Evelyn Wood graduates can get to it and digest it before I get the chance. She also told me that I should read the gouge, and if I have any questions then call the PBS Bid Assist dudes on the 8th when they open shop.

UGBSM

Lots of Delta guys got full pay to NOT fly the B717. I got six months off myself.

scambo1

Never mind.

scambo1

Are you Bill Lumberg?