Annual leave bidding at a seniority airline, how do juniors ever get summer?
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#1 United, month nine. Leave bids for next year opened and the seniors take every summer week. How do juniors ever get a summer holiday?
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#2 Year one to three: you don't get July. You get shoulder seasons and you learn to love September. Bid for the weeks nobody wants, take the days off around a trip you hold, and use trip trades to build a block. By year five you get a summer week. It sounds harsh but it is the same for everyone and it does come. And a September holiday is cheaper and quieter, so.
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#3 SAS is not seniority based for leave in the same way, it is a fairer rotation. Just to say systems differ.