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Old 05-07-2013, 10:35 AM
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Bluedriver
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Originally Posted by biigD View Post
It's a good deal for management, and exploits the fact that most pilots will do just about anything for more money. Using your example, take an FO at JetBlue making $101/hour. He has a 72 hour line, and decides to pick up open time to 88 hours to chase the premium pay. His effective hourly rate for the 88 hours becomes $106.74, or about 5.7% more.

But the company got 22% more work out of him.
And the pilot got 27.7% more total pay....
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