Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You get the ALV or the line you bid whichever is higher. In addition depending on when your training starts there are lots of options to get a great deal via where you place trips in a initial bid. You can go for time off or money. In addition if you average 5.5 days a week working for a training month you would receive 5 payback days. The shadow period is part of our training pay and process. Still waiting for someone to post how are system overall is bottom of the industry.
Actually for preposted training--which almost all Qualification Training is--there is no "higher of training or the line you bid"--you get 1/30 or 1/31 of the ALV for each day of training, with bidding allowed around that. (Caveat, there are undoubtedly some pay-protection exceptions for guys awaiting training, awaiting OE etc). It is not a
bad deal, just not a great one. I just finished training on the ATL 320A, coming from ATL 717A. Here is the pay and credit breakdown for August.
Preaward of Qualification Training, beginning Aug 21. I had ten days of training, worth 28 hours. Prior to that I flew a 4-day and two 3-day trips earlier in the month as I closed out my time on the 717. Also ten days worth of work...worth 52 hours of pay! Also, I can promise you that when I go to a long school, I am "all in" and work far harder than when I am flying the line. The syllabus was very good, but quite thorough and taking it lightly really wasn't an option. I also had to do 12 hours of systems training at home (via the USB thumb drive) and I got 6 hours of pay/no credit for that.
Bottom line--not a bad month, pay wise, and no real complaints. I just think that the per-day pay of initial qual training should be worth a bit more. I also realize that that is probably not up there on ALPA's priority list.