The Alaska discount is alive and well
01-21-2023, 01:10 PM
#21
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2007
Posts: 3,817
I’m scratching my head here too…not sure how anyone could take the results of late last year and project into the future. It was a rare windfall and I certainly wouldn’t expect it going forward.
01-21-2023, 02:39 PM
#23
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Joined APC: Dec 2005
Posts: 8,938
January 15 days off (including 5 vacation days). 15 days of line flying. One of those was a day trip that was cancelled, made PCM but not used. So for all practical purposes, 14 days of physical flying and 16 days of not physically flying.
Total pay for January = 108.5 hrs credit.
Yeah, Alaska sucks
February, no vacation, no training, just a normal full month:
By *choice* 17 days of flying, 13 days off, 102 credit.
Looking at the reserve grid, I can drop 6 days of work and go to 19 days off, 11 days of flying and settle for 71 hrs credit. (CA rsv coverage is very good in my base these days).
And none of this is 150% or 200% Premium. This is all just normal flight pay, normal trips.
01-21-2023, 02:44 PM
#25
Line Holder
Joined APC: Apr 2016
Posts: 68
No storms:
January 15 days off (including 5 vacation days). 15 days of line flying. One of those was a day trip that was cancelled, made PCM but not used. So for all practical purposes, 14 days of physical flying and 16 days of not physically flying.
Total pay for January = 108.5 hrs credit.
Yeah, Alaska sucks
February, no vacation, no training, just a normal full month:
By *choice* 17 days of flying, 13 days off, 102 credit.
Looking at the reserve grid, I can drop 6 days of work and go to 19 days off, 11 days of flying and settle for 71 hrs credit. (CA rsv coverage is very good in my base these days).
And none of this is 150% or 200% Premium. This is all just normal flight pay, normal trips.
January 15 days off (including 5 vacation days). 15 days of line flying. One of those was a day trip that was cancelled, made PCM but not used. So for all practical purposes, 14 days of physical flying and 16 days of not physically flying.
Total pay for January = 108.5 hrs credit.
Yeah, Alaska sucks
February, no vacation, no training, just a normal full month:
By *choice* 17 days of flying, 13 days off, 102 credit.
Looking at the reserve grid, I can drop 6 days of work and go to 19 days off, 11 days of flying and settle for 71 hrs credit. (CA rsv coverage is very good in my base these days).
And none of this is 150% or 200% Premium. This is all just normal flight pay, normal trips.
Think outside the box for once people.
01-21-2023, 03:03 PM
#26
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Joined APC: Dec 2005
Posts: 8,938
13 days off? I prefer to have a life outside of work. A better contract where you make that same money but work less would be beneficial too, but no one thinks of that since "that's the way we've always done it and if you don't like it, leave."
Think outside the box for once people.
Think outside the box for once people.
01-21-2023, 03:08 PM
#27
Line Holder
Joined APC: Apr 2016
Posts: 68
Senior enough to hold M-F day turns and all you get is 13 days off?? I can't for the life of me figure out exactly why people voted for this. Mgmt is laughing all the way to the bank..... Must be nice being senior as I'm sure you don't give a $hit about what contract you get or how much you get paid. For the other 95% of us who can't consistently hold the M-F day turns, we want better work rules & pay that actually keeps us with our peers.
Last edited by ASpilot0936; 01-21-2023 at 03:41 PM.
01-21-2023, 04:31 PM
#28
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Joined APC: Dec 2005
Posts: 8,938
Senior enough to hold M-F day turns and all you get is 13 days off?? I can't for the life of me figure out exactly why people voted for this. Mgmt is laughing all the way to the bank..... Must be nice being senior as I'm sure you don't give a $hit about what contract you get or how much you get paid. For the other 95% of us who can't consistently hold the M-F day turns, we want better work rules & pay that actually keeps us with our peers.
01-21-2023, 04:42 PM
#29
Respek
Joined APC: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,658
13 days off? I prefer to have a life outside of work. A better contract where you make that same money but work less would be beneficial too, but no one thinks of that since "that's the way we've always done it and if you don't like it, leave."
Think outside the box for once people.
Think outside the box for once people.
01-21-2023, 05:02 PM
#30
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Joined APC: Dec 2005
Posts: 8,938
One of the most junior upgrades at DAL was a former AS guy whom I figured was guna ride the storm out… He went to DAL a few months before me and just got ER CA. When he finishes training roughly at his one year anniversary he’ll be at $320/hr… beating every topped out CA rate here.
