Originally Posted by
Dave Fitzgerald
Darn it, what is our profession coming to? We need to mentor these young studs better than this. Whatever happened to the Capt Getting laid, and 2 crew meals while the Flt Engineer has the bowel movement?
, or did I get that mixed up.....oh, who cares?
Dave,
I'm not a UAL guy so I don't know what's in the report you want exactly. However, if you're just doing the employee expense portion of your taxes and you just need the one month, it's not that hard to gonkulate the per diem figure based on the government rates (if that's what you need).
There's an article available via ALPA on how to do it. Or, if you want to PM me, I can give you the low down.
As far as paying for per diem numbers: I can tell you, as an almost exclusively international flyer, the company I use gives me numbers that are worth the expense (i.e. they pay for themselves and then some). Their method is IRS approved (and proprietary) and consistently beat the numbers my company or I am able to come up. So, save lots of time, a good bit of $$ and it's easy. That sounds like it's pilot friendly to me. Just a thought.