WTH? Why is Vacation in my Schedule?
04-18-2021, 09:52 PM
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WTH? Why is Vacation in my Schedule?
Just took a look at my May schedule award and there is two weeks of vacation in there. Never bid any vacation at all since I can’t plan anything that far out, and was going to do the monthly vacation bid thing when the time was right.
What’s going on? Who do I call to get that taken out?
What’s going on? Who do I call to get that taken out?
04-18-2021, 10:21 PM
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Just took a look at my May schedule award and there is two weeks of vacation in there. Never bid any vacation at all since I can’t plan anything that far out, and was going to do the monthly vacation bid thing when the time was right.
What’s going on? Who do I call to get that taken out?
What’s going on? Who do I call to get that taken out?
if you don’t bid you get assigned 2 weeks
you can’t have all 5 weeks vacation all floating and available for monthly bid
04-19-2021, 05:23 AM
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Joined APC: Dec 2008
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Just took a look at my May schedule award and there is two weeks of vacation in there. Never bid any vacation at all since I can’t plan anything that far out, and was going to do the monthly vacation bid thing when the time was right.
What’s going on? Who do I call to get that taken out?
What’s going on? Who do I call to get that taken out?
04-19-2021, 05:46 AM
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Just took a look at my May schedule award and there is two weeks of vacation in there. Never bid any vacation at all since I can’t plan anything that far out, and was going to do the monthly vacation bid thing when the time was right.
What’s going on? Who do I call to get that taken out?
What’s going on? Who do I call to get that taken out?
04-20-2021, 08:36 AM
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Here some other considerations to put into your lessons learned bag of tricks, in case you forgot. A month with two weeks of vacation, in which you want to "max out" your flying, you'll have to fly at least 82.5 hrs before you beat MPG for the month, while still having to manage where you'll place your required 6 (4) days-off for the month. Of which vacation days don't count. Definitely break up those vacation weeks and move around the month. Just can't move them in the past. Good luck!
04-22-2021, 12:16 PM
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Joined APC: Jan 2008
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Also, when annual vacation bidding got going, the first thing you have to bid is how many weeks of vacation you intend to bid and how many weeks you want to carry forward into monthly bidding. Looks like you skipped that step as well. Also, monthly vacation bidding can be very hard to be successful at.
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