Originally Posted by
Opteryx
OK, I'm fairly clueless on this. If an airline pays $30 an hour, and guarantees 70 hours in a month, you get $2100 a month fly pay (crap!). How many hours is typical (I know, this is probably highly variable)?
If you get paid $1.80 per diem, that's paid per hour from the time you walk in the door until when? And that's paid on top of the flight pay I assume? Any other $$ to add on to this that a pilot get's paid (not counting the second job as a pizza delivery boy)?
You get paid per flight hour, 70 is your base, then you get paid anything you fly over 70. Per diem is on trips from check in to check out. usually doesn't pay for day trips or airport reserve. But it all depends on your contract.