Casualinterest

Open time is really your best way. All open time is 150% and some is 200% but usually just last minute trips during irop recovery. But if you live in or around NY you can clean up 200% open time pay. Just call up scheduling and say show me the money haha. Other than that, you can get creative with how you bid to make more money.

You can also enable Max line range when bidding to get more efficient trips that put you over 85 hours for the month, guaranteeing you some premium pay, as the open time tends to dry up quickly after the schedule comes out.

High density short trips with lots of days off are good goals, then pick up open time. Open time cdo's (one day overnight red eye trips), which are awesome if you live in base.

There are lots of guys crediting over 100 hours per month every month. I'm not one of them. (days off=gold).

And then there are the guys who make 10k per year with referral bonuses. Guess they're basically just freelance recruiters in their downtime haha.

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brettj72

The bonuses are taxed at the same rate as any other pay. The only difference is the withholding is higher. They take more out of your paycheck but you get it back when you file your taxes if you paid too much. At the end of the year you end up with the same amount of money.

Green Needles

Let the bonus expire, watch the operation fall apart and a mass exodus happen.

Five93H

I'm losing money every month we drag this out. I think I've been south of 83 hours once this year (recurrent). 99 hours in a month with differences, 120 in a buildup month. I like days off too, just have to be clever.

No bonus. Hourly. I've told my reps.

Kforekyle

Don,t settle for 83 hrs. Be patient. A pay raise for everyone on property

Kforekyle

100% agree! But it will never get that far.

Mesabah

I believe the company will simply extend the bonus, and just drag its feet if no agreement is inked. It's the loss of the extra items with the bonus counted as salary that we are losing.

HighFlight

The bonus withholding is neither outstandingly good nor remarkably bad. It is 25%, the rate set by the IRS. If your current tax rate is lower, you get the difference back at the end of the year. If it is higher than 25%, you will end up paying more. It's that simple.

Either way, the $83 per hour proposal is a pay cut using the 75 hour model we base our months on. But if you consider how much you'll make in open time, as well as 401K company contributions, it isn't all that terrible, actually.

JTwift

...and then all those people earning 150-200% will get that time at the lower rate because they were squabbling over $2 an hour.

shamrok

Patient? As if we were in control.....three years from now we will be giving way to the C-series in NYC and Delta will be downsizing Endeavor....Delta isn't going to bargain with us....its take it or leave it...the bonus is their best option and I don't think you will see a pay integration......this way they can pull the plug on the bonus like a kill switch and watch endeavor self destruct....history repeats itself and the industry is changing....the 900
Base in ATL with a few more 900's coming on property is good an all but it's just smoke and mirrors....prospective pilots think they see growth......there are better options out there with career progression. I hope I'm wrong about this but it's what I've been hearing through the grapevine.