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Old 02-15-2017 | 08:33 PM
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zondaracer
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Originally Posted by Flyguy4723
Can you explain plz? If an airline guarantees 75 hours minimum per month, what does that mean? How much do you have to fly? How much can you fly?
It totally depends on company work rules, base, seniority, how they build the trips, etc. At my company, they have a minimum daily guarantee of 4:12. So if you do a two day trip, for example, where the first day you fly just one hour and the second day you fly 5 hours, you will get 4:12 pay for day one and 5 hours of pay for day 2, to simplify things. We also get paid for deadheads, which is when you ride in the back of a plane when they need to reposition the crew. We get paid for training, and holidays, and other things and it's all in the work rules. Every airline has their pay rules which vary from company to company. So just looking at the hourly pay rate is only one part of the equation.
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