Originally Posted by
easyflying
you start off with a great line that you bid, 17 days of work. day one and last day are pro rated with 4.95 the rest of the days are paid at 4.95 or what ever you fly which ever is more. Then as you start your trip the changes start and next thing you know your nice 90+ hr line is down to 30 hrs of flying and your are on R1 (home reserve) for a bunch of days and so on. now you are down to your guarantee. It can go the other way and get those nice pay checks like Twin is talking about too. I think that is what happens at Atlas. In the Galley we are always busy, working none stop. But we make peanuts compared to the glorified pilots make.
Kitchen out, got to make more coffee
You guys are making this way to complicated. You owe the company 17 days a month that can be extended 3 days. The 3 days does not happen very often and if they do it pays extra per day on top of guarantee. As far as pay don't look at days look at TAFB(time away from base) divided by 4.95 or block, which ever is higher is what you get paid.
You start your trip Sept 1st at noon and end on Sept 17th at noon. That is 17 calander days but only 384 hrs TAFB not 408(17 days). 384/4.95=77.57hrs pay or if your flight time + Deadhead is more than that you get the higher of. If you sit at home on reserve to many days your rig will drop and you will get at least 50 year one or 62hrs year two and beyond.
People think its 4.95 a day but 24/4.95rig=4.84 a day.