9 days off in the summer is absolutely absurd! You cant, for example, go on a full 2weeks holiday, and if you have children you cant spend a decent summer holiday with them and must importantly, april-sept is the time of the year when we work the hardest and therefore need as much break as possible surely they cant expect us to only have 9days of leave?
At the end of the day, the only reason they are doing this is so they can work us even harder if they cant recruit enough people to cover for all the new routes they will be introducing.
one thing i dont understand though is, why is it not thesame with the FD? surely if it is as they said in the NTC2 "more balanced system", then thesame thing should apply to the FD as well.