Originally Posted by
Tanker1497
This right here. Just had a jump seater. Former Air Tran living in Atlanta, commutes to HOU. He flies four 3 days a month. The 3 day he was about to work was worth 19:30. For his 12 days working, he averages 95 TFP's; that works out to about 109 hours of pay. Not bad for 12 days. I'd have to work 21 days on the 717 to earn that. The usual suspects are making this TA out to be not that big a deal. When you put more money on top of arguably some of the best work rules in the industry, it's a big deal. The company funded B plan is nice as well. Meanwhile, back here, we're trying to figure out how far backwards we need to take our work rules to get industry standard pay...sigh.
19.5 for a 3 day is really low too. That's our bare minimum. I fly a lot of 3-days that are worth 22-23. We work for it though. Sometimes it's 2-3 really long legs a day or 4-5 shorter legs a day on that 3-day trip.