Originally Posted by Free Flyer

Not entirely true. I made more on reserve 777 with our old CAL contract at a lesser pay scale than I do now with my current pay scale (even with the increase of $23/hour) because of our work rules.

I usually would fly only 75 hours but get paid 105 hours because of a loophole in our old contract. The most I ever made was flying 79 hours and I got paid for 142 hours. I have the records to prove it. That doesn't happen anymore with our new contract.

And I had more guaranteed days off than now also. We had a guaranteed 12 days off with no rolling of days versus the 6 measly HDO's off that I get now and possibility of getting every RDO rolled.

Anyways, I can still manipulate my schedule and our contract wording to my advantage, I just have to be more crafty, but overall I honestly took a $20K-30K pay cut versus our old contract.