Originally Posted by
Free Bird
That's exactly what I did. We have way too many folks parking trips, using the swap board etc. to fly 85-90 hours a month. We need a system in place that pays premium for time over (80 or 75) hours. I do believe that was in the NWA contract.
NWA paid 1.5X for anything over 80. We also did not differentiate between "pay" and "credit"; an hour was an hour, no matter how you got it.
Open time was assigned first to guys who would not break 80 with the assignment, then to guys who would. Each group was handled in seniority order. I preferred that system because it was very straightforward. There were no back-room horse trades or secret handshakes involved.