Attrition
12-20-2021, 05:32 PM
#282
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12-20-2021, 09:15 PM
#283
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Just sayin I’m top 30% in the company. Top 40% in base. Holidays off. No red eyes, no international. And In January I have 16 days off .. 7 off in a row , 5 off in a row, and 4 off in a row. And if I wanted more off I could drop any of my trips and get nearly two weeks off in a row. Or I could drop the entire month and be a ski bum.
if we got gobbled up by WN I’m guessing I wouldn’t be able to check off any of those boxes.
if we got gobbled up by WN I’m guessing I wouldn’t be able to check off any of those boxes.
12-21-2021, 04:15 AM
#284
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Joined APC: May 2018
Posts: 766
Just sayin I’m top 30% in the company. Top 40% in base. Holidays off. No red eyes, no international. And In January I have 16 days off .. 7 off in a row , 5 off in a row, and 4 off in a row. And if I wanted more off I could drop any of my trips and get nearly two weeks off in a row. Or I could drop the entire month and be a ski bum.
if we got gobbled up by WN I’m guessing I wouldn’t be able to check off any of those boxes.
if we got gobbled up by WN I’m guessing I wouldn’t be able to check off any of those boxes.
Bottom 5 percent at WN and have that no issue if I want it. Not a true drop all, but there are ways to really widdle down the schedule to having 20 days off a month. And you can make more off happen if you HAVE to through other means.
12-21-2021, 04:49 AM
#285
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Joined APC: Jun 2010
Position: DOWNGRADE COMPLETE: Thanks Gary. Thanks SWAPA.
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- One week of vacation that pays 50.7 TFP and created a 17 day off window. If you bid for “highest vacation pay” you’ll consistently get 40-45 TFP per week of vacation (and some of the real bidding experts can get 55-60 TFP by overlapping one vacation week into two months). The touching trips being dropped will give you 16-17 days off in a row.
- For the one poster that hated busy trips….I just swapped out of a low block (10 hour) 3-day that paid minimum rig of 19.5 TFP. I have a friend that loves the 3 days that block 10-12 hours. I just refuse to go to work for 6.5 TFP/day. To each their own. What trips my trigger are 3-days paying 25+ of which I’ve had a 26+ and 27+ in the last two months. Btw, roughly 75-80% of our trips are 3-days.
- Currently sitting at 95 TFP for January working five days and having one week of vacation which accounts for 50.7 of that credit.
My biggest fear is that somehow the efficiency of SWA schedules goes away. As far as I know they’ve always been very efficient and PBS is a HARD NO for us so hopefully the ability to go to work and average 8 or more TFP/day will always be there.
I know you guys can straight up drop trips and we could too at AirTran but is “insufficient reserve coverage” a big issue when trying to? You guys use Flica, right?
12-21-2021, 05:34 AM
#286
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2018
Posts: 1,792
Precisely. Some data points for me next month:
- One week of vacation that pays 50.7 TFP and created a 17 day off window. If you bid for “highest vacation pay” you’ll consistently get 40-45 TFP per week of vacation (and some of the real bidding experts can get 55-60 TFP by overlapping one vacation week into two months). The touching trips being dropped will give you 16-17 days off in a row.
- For the one poster that hated busy trips….I just swapped out of a low block (10 hour) 3-day that paid minimum rig of 19.5 TFP. I have a friend that loves the 3 days that block 10-12 hours. I just refuse to go to work for 6.5 TFP/day. To each their own. What trips my trigger are 3-days paying 25+ of which I’ve had a 26+ and 27+ in the last two months. Btw, roughly 75-80% of our trips are 3-days.
- Currently sitting at 95 TFP for January working five days and having one week of vacation which accounts for 50.7 of that credit.
My biggest fear is that somehow the efficiency of SWA schedules goes away. As far as I know they’ve always been very efficient and PBS is a HARD NO for us so hopefully the ability to go to work and average 8 or more TFP/day will always be there.
I know you guys can straight up drop trips and we could too at AirTran but is “insufficient reserve coverage” a big issue when trying to? You guys use Flica, right?
- One week of vacation that pays 50.7 TFP and created a 17 day off window. If you bid for “highest vacation pay” you’ll consistently get 40-45 TFP per week of vacation (and some of the real bidding experts can get 55-60 TFP by overlapping one vacation week into two months). The touching trips being dropped will give you 16-17 days off in a row.
- For the one poster that hated busy trips….I just swapped out of a low block (10 hour) 3-day that paid minimum rig of 19.5 TFP. I have a friend that loves the 3 days that block 10-12 hours. I just refuse to go to work for 6.5 TFP/day. To each their own. What trips my trigger are 3-days paying 25+ of which I’ve had a 26+ and 27+ in the last two months. Btw, roughly 75-80% of our trips are 3-days.
- Currently sitting at 95 TFP for January working five days and having one week of vacation which accounts for 50.7 of that credit.
My biggest fear is that somehow the efficiency of SWA schedules goes away. As far as I know they’ve always been very efficient and PBS is a HARD NO for us so hopefully the ability to go to work and average 8 or more TFP/day will always be there.
I know you guys can straight up drop trips and we could too at AirTran but is “insufficient reserve coverage” a big issue when trying to? You guys use Flica, right?
12-21-2021, 05:41 AM
#287
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Joined APC: Jun 2010
Position: DOWNGRADE COMPLETE: Thanks Gary. Thanks SWAPA.
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Same as we had at AirTran. You do use Flica and PBS right?
12-21-2021, 06:00 AM
#288
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Joined APC: May 2018
Posts: 766
Precisely. Some data points for me next month:
- One week of vacation that pays 50.7 TFP and created a 17 day off window. If you bid for “highest vacation pay” you’ll consistently get 40-45 TFP per week of vacation (and some of the real bidding experts can get 55-60 TFP by overlapping one vacation week into two months). The touching trips being dropped will give you 16-17 days off in a row.
- For the one poster that hated busy trips….I just swapped out of a low block (10 hour) 3-day that paid minimum rig of 19.5 TFP. I have a friend that loves the 3 days that block 10-12 hours. I just refuse to go to work for 6.5 TFP/day. To each their own. What trips my trigger are 3-days paying 25+ of which I’ve had a 26+ and 27+ in the last two months. Btw, roughly 75-80% of our trips are 3-days.
- Currently sitting at 95 TFP for January working five days and having one week of vacation which accounts for 50.7 of that credit.
My biggest fear is that somehow the efficiency of SWA schedules goes away. As far as I know they’ve always been very efficient and PBS is a HARD NO for us so hopefully the ability to go to work and average 8 or more TFP/day will always be there.
I know you guys can straight up drop trips and we could too at AirTran but is “insufficient reserve coverage” a big issue when trying to? You guys use Flica, right?
- One week of vacation that pays 50.7 TFP and created a 17 day off window. If you bid for “highest vacation pay” you’ll consistently get 40-45 TFP per week of vacation (and some of the real bidding experts can get 55-60 TFP by overlapping one vacation week into two months). The touching trips being dropped will give you 16-17 days off in a row.
- For the one poster that hated busy trips….I just swapped out of a low block (10 hour) 3-day that paid minimum rig of 19.5 TFP. I have a friend that loves the 3 days that block 10-12 hours. I just refuse to go to work for 6.5 TFP/day. To each their own. What trips my trigger are 3-days paying 25+ of which I’ve had a 26+ and 27+ in the last two months. Btw, roughly 75-80% of our trips are 3-days.
- Currently sitting at 95 TFP for January working five days and having one week of vacation which accounts for 50.7 of that credit.
My biggest fear is that somehow the efficiency of SWA schedules goes away. As far as I know they’ve always been very efficient and PBS is a HARD NO for us so hopefully the ability to go to work and average 8 or more TFP/day will always be there.
I know you guys can straight up drop trips and we could too at AirTran but is “insufficient reserve coverage” a big issue when trying to? You guys use Flica, right?
Right!
The only issue is reserve. Thats harder to get rid off, and almost no flex unless you call in sick or find someone to pick it up or trade a trip.
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