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Old 05-27-2017 | 09:56 AM
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Happyflyer
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I don't think this will paint the picture your looking for. The averages are more important than the minimum.
Its like correlating that the state minimum wage in Washington is $15 bucks an hour and only $8 in Ohio then it's easier to make $100k a year in Washington.

For example I credit over 5 hours for each working day at PSA, and it's always commutable. Our minday is only 3.5 with carveouts on the first and last day.
Same thing with deadhead pay, if it's 50% or 100% doesn't matter if your getting paid through minday, or on rsv. Also a 23 hour 4 day with 2 50% DH is worth more than a 20 hour 4 day with 2 100% Dh's. I talk to pilots all the time who say the bid to avoid DH because it pays less.

And your almost always going to see better minday and rigs at company's that use PBS, because that's how they got them. It can't be applied in equal value to a company with hard lines.

If you had no rig or minday protection and your junior with PBS then you'd go straight to mindays off min-guarantee, because the trip productivity would be so low by the time it got to you.
Same with senior guys, they would have limited flexibility because it would want to only award the high credit trips to them.
So in a way the company balances hard lines in a way that PBS can only do with a rig or minday value. It's not direct compensation to the pilot group.

Last edited by Happyflyer; 05-27-2017 at 10:09 AM.
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