Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The historic block is not by day, it is per each flight leg. They take the historic "average" of the time to fly between city pairs and that's what you get paid (only if the flight completes).
The average is artificially low, because the company "adjusts" block times that have significant delays. This keeps the historic average low and also keeps the pilot's weekly, monthly, and annual flight times lower than actual.
If you work at mesa you MUST keep your own written record of block times to ensure that you don't exceed flight time limits.
Exactly, Historic Block is a per leg basis; it's the historic average time it takes to fly from A to B. That's all you get paid at MAG, so if you hold, go missed approach and vectored around from another, go around, divert, 41st inline or what ever it maybe; you don't get paid for any overages. If you like working for free then MAG is right for you!
THIS IS HUGE; it's why MAG has the lowest labor cost in the industry and it costs their pilots an enormous about of pay that is rightfully theirs.
After all it was JO who said, “As long as there’s a stack of resumes on my desk then pilots are overpaid!” What a leader, if you want to follow someone into "hell."