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Vacation Bidding Reminders
Friday, August 8, 2025
REMINDER #1:
Vacation Bidding 2026 – Round 2 is open now! It closes Monday, August 11, 2025, at Noon CT. You will be bidding for one slot during this round. The last bid submitted will be the one which Crew Planning uses to award your vacation slot.
DON’T FORGET: Slots of greater than 7-days (i.e., 14 or 21-days) cannot be broken up into smaller slots later using Vacation Open Time or TT/GA. You will only be able to trade for slots of the same duration.
REMINDER #2:
All active and inactive Flight Attendants with remaining accrued 2026 vacation days should submit a bid during this round.
Q1: “How do I know how many accrued vacation days I have remaining?”
On the Vacation Bidding application, you’ll find a lot of helpful information on the home screen, including bidding seniority, remaining accrued days, and what you were awarded during Round 1.
Q2: “What is Floating Vacation?”
Floating Vacation is a 7-day slot of vacation with an unassigned 2026 days. If awarded a Floating Vacation slot, you would bid for an available Floating Vacation slot in your domicile no later than the last day of the bid month prior to the slot you’d like to be awarded.
Example: I am an OAK based Flight Attendant with a Floating Vacation slot. I’d really like to be awarded (in seniority order) a June Floating Vacation slot. I would need to submit my Floating Vacation bid no later than April 30th at Noon CT (prior to Primary Bidding for June, which begins on May 2nd).
IMPORTANT: The period incorporating Thanksgiving and the last two weeks of December are considered “black out” periods and will not have available Floating Vacation slots. (Article 14.3.A.1)
Q3: “How would I bid for a Floating Vacation slot during Vacation Bidding 2026?”
Easy! You would click the “Floating Vacation” button when selecting a Round 2 slot.
For more information about Floating Vacation, check out the TWU Local 556 Education Committee resource – “Basics of Floating Vacation”.