A Message from SWAPA President
#41
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: CA
Posts: 1,207
Why do you continue to use average SWA credit, but only guarantee for ATN pilots? Not a valid comparison. Back during contract negotiations, it was calculated that the average AirTran pilot credits over 1100 hours per year. Base your numbers on that, not minimum guarantee, and you'll see where the pay cut comes from.
#42
If that has gone down, what would your best guess be of average line credit have been pre-acquisition?
That seems like it would be an accurate estimate of the average take home pay.
#43
"Closer to the high 80s." I'll use 87.5--halfway between 85 and 90.
7 year ATN CA: $151 x 87.5 = $13,212
7 Year SWA FO: $125 x 100 = $12,500 (-$1,212) To "break even," the SWA FO will have to work 106 trips, at 6.5 trips per day, that's 16-17 days a month.
12 yr ATN CA: $165 x 87.5 =$14,437
12 Yr SWA FO: $ 132 x 100 = $13,200 (-$1,237) To "break even," the SWA FO will have to work 110 trips, or 17 days a month.
To complete the comparison, we will have to know how many days a month the ATN CA has to work in order to credit 87.5 hours.
#44
Using July's lines, an ATN 717 CA would need to work only 15 days to credit 87.5 hours flying nothing more than his original line. By swapping around for more efficient trips and getting some premium pay, that could be reduced.
#46
I'm talking just regular lines as published, not ELITT. We have a two-stage SAP process which is basically our version of ELITT (without so many restrictions), but I'm not counting what you can do in that.
#47
A 12 year SWA FO is so senior that he can easily out do the average. A little knowledge of the system and some open time seniority can make that 160tfp on 15 days.
Anyone with that kind of seniority can get all turns and 2 days on the original bid, give it all away and make his/her sched from scratch out of giveaway and open time.
Anyone with that kind of seniority can get all turns and 2 days on the original bid, give it all away and make his/her sched from scratch out of giveaway and open time.
#48
Work 11 days: 90-95 trips (only a few of these)
Work 12 days: 89-100 trips
Work 13 days: 90-107 trips
Work 14 days: 94-110 trips
Work 15 days: 99-112 trips
To visualize the distribution: The 12 day pairings trend toward the low 90s , while the 15 day pairings trend towrd the upper end, 108-109. (Only a few 15 day pairings pay 99-100, while only a few 12 day pairings pay 98-99 or more.) 13s cluster around 98-100 and 14s around 103-105.
So, in July, to reach the breakeven 106-110 trips, the SWA FO will have to bid a line working 13-14 days.
A 12-year captain will be a senior FO, and can bid the line of their choosing. A junior 7-year ATN CA will be a mid level FO, and will be able to hold a 106 trip line, but may have to work either Saturday or Sunday, but probably not both, or move up to a 15 day line.
#50
I guarantee you that even a bottom 15%er FO like me could get better than 135tfp in a 31 day month with 13 days off. No open time or anything, just giveaway and ELITT.
My only problem would be keeping my block under 30/7 and 100/30.
I never want to work that much though. I'm a 12-13 days of work kind of guy and work 95-105tfp.
I've seen low seniority FO's who want to work AVERAGE over 160tfp by bidding reserve and then picking up everything they can in between. Usually works out to 20 days a month but they're averaging over $17000/mo.
My only problem would be keeping my block under 30/7 and 100/30.
I never want to work that much though. I'm a 12-13 days of work kind of guy and work 95-105tfp.
I've seen low seniority FO's who want to work AVERAGE over 160tfp by bidding reserve and then picking up everything they can in between. Usually works out to 20 days a month but they're averaging over $17000/mo.
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