Originally Posted by
texaspilot76
If you're over $105, you're at top of scale or at a major. So, to compare apples to apples, a senior PSA pilot at $100 an hour is effectively making $150 an hour. No regional on earth pays that rate, other than PSA pilots with the SAP.
As awesome as the SAP is this is not entirely true. No one is getting ALL their flying at 150%. I know some high speed lines were but I think the company shadily nixed that method.
Mostly what's happening is people are ending the SAP with anywhere between 17-20 days off and then picking up flying from there that gets credited at 150%. So those couple 4 days that are left on your schedule you aren't getting 150% for. Also the system is slightly different as of this month and should benefit us even more as staffing gets tighter for the summer. Now you actually can, in theory, get all your flying at 150% but you need to be johnny on the spot on the open time. It also might not be fully sustainable every single month to get a bunch of 150% stuff. For the forseeable future though people are going to be making some serious money.