Originally Posted by
Stitches
Here you go:
Base: Avg TFP: Avg days off:
Hou -- 95.35 --- 17.53
DEN -- 98.27 --- 17.39
OAK -- 95.79 --- 17.47
MDW -- 97.33 --- 17.56
DAL -- 97.35 --- 17.46
Houston and Denver have the lowest and highest TFP average for August. Everywhere else is somewhere between those two but the system avg is around 96tfp. Denver has the lowest avg days off of all the bases (the highest avg days off is MDW at 17.56)
WRT vacation Sailing is technically correct regarding the min paying vacation of 26.75tfp. However the reality is that the only people who see that low of vacation pay is a reserve pilot with mid month vacation or someone bidding for maximum time off.
The highest paying vacation lines are those with weekend flying which go junior so even the bottom line holder is going to be able to get a vacation that pays over 30tfp for 1 week. I'd say 32-38tfp is about average for bottom line holders who bid for max pay and if you know the contract and are senior north of 55tfp is doable. I bid around 92% (bottom line holder) and my last vacation was around 45tfp.
FO pay rates (per trip)
1 50
2 84
3 94
4 104
5 114
6 118
7 122
8 125
9 126
10 130
11 131
12 132
Okay so let me get this straight - average time is 98 trips per month. So a 10 year FO flying average time (in order to get his 12 days/month work schedule) would make about $144k/year. Seems that most guys boast an incredibly higher total pay and much less days worked. So if someone is doing that then it would appear that someone else is working more and making less (there's a fixed amount of trips in the system and I imagine SWA doesn't add say an extra 10% of unscheduled trips every month). That is...until you actually talk to someone in the cockpit and see their schedule. The highest paid SWA pilots, undoubtedly, lurk on APC.