Occurs once a year prior to primary vacation bidding. You may bid to buyback a portion of or all of your net accrual. Opening and closing dates are shown. You may add/edit your yearly buyback bid by clicking on the tab to the right.

Shows opening and closing dates and will display the number of days awarded during primary bidding.

Shows opening and closing dates. Your remaining accrual indicates how many days you are bidding for, if any, in the secondary round. Secondary Award and Assignment will show how many days you were awarded and/or assigned in the secondary round. You will only bid in the secondary round if you did not bid enough in the primary round to award all of your vacation days. Additionally, if you have unscheduled days carrying forward from the previous vacation year, you may only bid them during the secondary round. If you do not bid or did not input enough bids to be awarded all of your vacation days, your days will be assigned in the secondary round.

You do not have to bid within a contractual or calendar month. Your blocks of vacation days may encompass more than one month. For example, you could bid to have vacation days start on June 27th and end of July 5th.

You have the option of bidding in ascending or descending date ranges. For example, you may bid to prioritize the end of the month over the beginning of the month by bidding a 7-day block with a descending date range starting on March 31 and ending on March 1. If you bid in this way, the system will look for a 7-day block you can hold at your seniority starting on March 31st. If it is unable to award you a block starting on the 31st, it will continue to look for a 7-day block, in descending dates and will award if you can hold such a block within that date range.

Be sure to specify the minimum and maximum number of days you are bidding within the date range you are entering. For example, if you want a 7-day block between March 31st and March 1st, you would bid for a minimum of 7 days and a maximum of 7 days. This indicates to the system that you want no more and no less than a 7-day block within the date range. If you are willing to be awarded less than 7 days in that block, you could enter the minimum number of days desired.

Example: You would like 7 days of vacation from May 16 – May 22. Just in case you can’t hold that 7 day block, your second choice might be to expand the range of days to May 12 through May 26, to ensure that you are awarded vacation as close to your desired block of days as possible. Then, you might enter a third choice of May 30 – May 2, with 7 days in that range. This way you would get the first available 7-day block starting at the end of the month going to the beginning, since the days you want are towards the second half of the month. If you aren’t senior enough to hold all 7 days within that date range you might consider lowering the minimum number of days you are requesting in order to get as many desired days in your vacation block as possible.

• Buddy Bidding for Vacation is allowed
• A Vacation Buddy Bid is processed at the JUNIOR Flight Attendant’s seniority
• You may only buddy bid with one Flight Attendant
• The buddy bid ballots must be identical
• Both buddy bidders must have the other employee’s number on their ballots – the system will not recognize the buddy bid without it

• If you have an anniversary pay increase, you could bid your vacation AFTER your anniversary to increase your vacation pay.
• 7 or more consecutive days are paid at 4.0 hours per day; 6 or less consecutive days are paid at 3.5 hours per day.
• You may have as many splits of your vacation as you want – however, you may only choose to have one split that is 3 or less consecutive days. The other splits must be 4 or more consecutive days.
• You may bid all your days in one vacation, but any vacation of 28 days or more in one bid month will not leave you enough hours to bid a trip to receive premium pay.
• If you have 7 or more days of vacation in your line or RSV month your days off will be pro-rated. You can find the proration chart in Section 10.D.18.d.
• If you bid down (senior bump) to reserve in a month where you have more than 3 days of vacation, you will not fulfill your reserve obligation for that month.
• You are only able to attach VEX days (up to 4 days) to a vacation of 7 or more consecutive days.
• Contractual language pertaining to vacation may be found in JCBA Section 8.
• Any questions about bidding or accrual should be sent to: [email protected]
• Remember annual bidding is just the “first draft” of vacation bidding. The Monthly Rebid opens every month from the 1st to the 10th and allows you to rebid your vacation.