Originally Posted by
JobHopper
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.
DAL had a 75 hr max in the 80s. Anything over 75 went into "bow-wave" which carried into next month and thus decreased the flying on your schedule for that month. There was no pay without credit either - for anything. But that has degenerated into what we have today. Flex time came about to allow the company to change the monthly max as the system flying changed throughout the year. Somewhere in there we added bank time. Etc, etc.
