Luv2FLY79

Actually you can drop your trip in Open time and pick it back up that second, you just better hope no one gets to it before you do!!!! A 4 day that pays 32 can be put in open time and picked back up......and end up paying 48 hours. Plus, if any "funny stuff" happens, you could potentially get double time on top of that. For example with less than 10 hours from arrival to departure on an overnight, the entire next day pays double time. It adds up fast when the weather goes south. Yes, aren't SWA FAs the best!!!!!

meeko031

I don't meat so I prefer "prunes" absolutely nothing wrong sippin' on wine. quality wine, hmm far from it, but it's wine none the less and it gets the job done...sometimes.....

Mesabah

Remember guys in these surveys they take the hourly pay rate and multiply it times a normal work schedule. They do not use the W2 earnings, they don;t consider the 1000 hr max per month. That's why airline employees always look like they make more than they do to the public.

Luv2FLY79

FAs don't have 30 in 7 or max 100 hours per month, I've seen FAs work 200 hours per month and at 40 and 50 dollars an hour not to mention some time and a half in there, these FAs are raking it in!!!

MrBigAir

More media-idiocy-BS. I like how they say certain states, such as Florida and Illinois are the states that pay the most for F/A's and ATC, respectively, as if a F/A could move to FL and get better pay. This corporate/management sponsored "information" (this one comes from Forbes magazine) completely undermines labor movements and significantly reduces public support for better work rules. "You make 102K a year! Stop complaining! etc. etc. etc." I just had a guy in an elevator look at me after an overnight in some podunk rinky dinky hotel at the end of a five day trip, and he said I should be happy, I make 300 to 400K a year!!! No joke, this was three days ago.

Though some disagree, I have no problems educating those who need to be educated about our pay and work rules, even if they're my customers. They have a right to know, and if we're being misaligned by constant propaganda, it's only up to us to rectify it.

reino757

THE "PILOT PROFESSION" is sorely lacking in (ANY) P.R.
ALPA has dropped the ball decades ago and nobody has organized / funded any sort of PR campaign.
When I "enlighten" folks that I talk to, they are absolutely amazed at what people are out there flying for!!!!
I might move forward with my "one pilot group" idea ..... WPA / Worldwide Pilots Assoc.
Somebody needs to do something damn it>
am I right?

Reino...................out

usa3000go

It's getting quite pathetic. I don't understand how people keep entering the industry.

soon2bfo

The problem is that the people getting into the industry are mostly college kids who have never paid rent in their lives, and they see the top pay scale as their "some day" entitlement. All of us who are in the industry recognize that pay will never be what it was.

usa3000go

Doesn't there need to be more unity with the pilots?? To be honest with you, I would be embarrassed to be making 20,000 after all the training. Everybody from the outside is shocked when they hear what pilots are making.