Originally Posted by
LuckyNow
Understood, and fully endorsed. I assumed that the profit sharing was based on your base salary and hours flown and not necessarily a hard percentage of whatever you pulled down with extra time and soft pay you took advantage of. Bravo if there are guys getting significantly more than the quoted number. I'm always all for pilots getting paid more.
Nope it's all inclusive. I think it would start opening too many can of worms if we went by "hours flown". What about reserves flying once a month? What if you have a transition course and were away from the line for 6 weeks with no "hours flown". Easiest way was just say the PS pool this year is X based on the contract and the company SEC filings. Total pilot compensation was Y. Divide them out and say "Every pilot gets Z% of the pay". This year for UAL is was just over 13%. DAL did significantly better financially and I think I read they got around 21%?