Originally Posted by
Regularguy
Are you serious and do you think this is a freebie?
For the "Company" to pay for a hotel means the money has to come frm somewhere. Wouldn't you rather just pay it out of your own pocket?
One of the issues is the IRS will not let a pilot deduct commuting expenses because it is a choice and not required by the employment. Now if there was a way to have that changed in the contract...
Hey maybe the pilot can submit the hotel expenses to the Company and then have them deducted before taxes from their paycheck the following month.
I wasn't advocating this...just trying to clarify for Krudawg how there wouldn't really be reserve lines anymore. Company putting crews in hotels isn't a far fetched idea. I worked at Evergreen during the furlough and that spiteful old man would park us at the 5 Towns in JFK for days on end waiting for a 747 that may or may not arrive.