Originally Posted by
JulesWinfield
Sure, but the stars have to align properly for that to happen, especially with the built in buffers in NYC. I've seen captains taxi painfully slow and purposely not set the brake to squeeze an extra cheeseburger out of Delta. At some point, you have to be a professional.
We get paid scheduled AVERAGE time or better. Do you know how averages work? Every time you're above the average you're making money for everyone when the new SAT's are calculated.
I don't taxi slow, but I drop the brake at door close. You'd be surprised how often we're over SAT, and at my rate I get a cheeseburger's amount of pay every 3 minutes. I'm gonna get pretty fat.
You never know when something is going to crop up to delay your push, if you're sitting there with the brake set waiting for departure time, you're potentially losing money if you could have been over SAT on this leg. On time door close is D-3; on four legs even if nothing goes wrong, you could be losing 12 minutes by keeping the brake set. That's like $15-20 at Captain's rates.
If they want us to hold the brake release then they should pay us door close to door open, if they change that I'll drop the brake whenever they'd like.