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Old 10-12-2014 | 04:11 PM
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Einstein2014
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Originally Posted by Beech90
How often do pilots break guarantee?
I am not sure how it is right now, however; the question is why would you want to break guarantee?

This is a company that cancels a lot for MX and other "Operational" reasons. You will not be paid protected and basing your bid on the hopes for getting paid 95% of your award based on reaching a 98% completion rate is a gamble. Many senior pilots can bid "productive" trips (damn few) and most do. The percentage of productive trips available is small.

What most pilots do is bid min guarantee so that way if they get cancelled, they don't grow more white hair over it. These two different bidding strategies which many use to date.

Reality, you will be at min days off with min guarantee....again, most four day trips are worth anywhere between 4 to 12 hours...I have even seen a trip worth 2 hours. It literally consisted of nothing but dead heading you around for a few days and only flying one leg on your last day.