Originally Posted by sandrich

We get paid hourly for block time. Which for us is usually when #1 comes on line, some us door close, or break release. We don't have ACARS so we can pretty much call it how we want. You can make money in two ways on a single flight. You make your block time (out to in time) then the green incentive (off to on time). The idea behind the green incentive is to minimize the amount of time the aircrafts in the air. Someone mentioned safety issues with this, but in my opinion its not an issue. All checklists and procedures are followed, we simply take advantage of the manueverability and capabilities of the 1900 (land on shorter runways for example) Not sure if that clears it up, but it tried ;-)