Originally Posted by
Qotsaautopilot
Con:
3.E.
Hourly pay from block in to block out or actual time which ever is grater on on a DUTY PERIOD BY DUTY PERIOD basis.
This is current book and many call it trip averaging which is not a correct term because trip averaging is something different
Point being it’s not block or better on a LEG BY LEG basis.
Ex:
FLL to LGA to FLL. If you come in 20 over block on FLL to LGA then come in 19min under block LGA to FLL. You get a grand total of 1 min over block for that duty period instead of the 20 min I’m due.
Regional airlines don’t even do this. It’s theft! Not to mention it doesn’t incentivize an on time operation. It makes me protect the over block I made on the prior leg by slowing down if I’m not on a “rigged trip”
Seriously wtf
We used to have this at VX, only it was block or better FOR THE WHOLE MONTH!! It was awful. So if you were scheduled 80h and you flew 79.5 you got 80. Scheduled 80 and flew 80.1 you got 80.1.
Overblock all month on ragged, long days with delays, weather and mechanicals, but then get in early on a couple transcons cause the winds were light? Hours and hours of pay, gone. *POOF**
Then under the ALK JCBA we went to block or better per leg. I've been tracking it since it changed, it's a 5-9% raise over the way the crooks were computing it before.
Don't sign this garbage contract, you guys and the industry deserve better. Way better.