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Urban achiever
100%...
Pretty much every other airline has some form of better soft pay... trip / duty rigs, better minimum day pay, and better day off / premium pay.
To those saying, so what? Doesn’t sound like a big difference... Don’t kid yourself, those small differences add up to thousands if not tens of thousands each year.
Exactly. While our hourly pay rates are not changing, this particular new agreement will be giving me a 15k-20k dollar pay cut.
Things to look for is the ability to pick up soft pay. Soft pay is basically extra pay thats not really related to your actual flying. Understanding the difference between “block hours” and “credit hours” is very important.
“Block hours” basically means the amount of hours that you are operating the airplane. Pretty much what goes into your logbook.
“Credit hours” means the amount of hours that youre getting paid for.
I would say all 3 of the American Wholly Owneds have horrible soft pay rules. So for example, at an American WO if you block 75 hours in a month you will most likely credit about the same 75 hours or maybe 77-78 tops. Where at most other places you will credit around 80-100 hours for that same 75 block hours of work. So even if pay rates were equal... obviously 90 hours will pay more than 75 hours. Throw in the much higher pay rates at the other places and the total compensation becomes much larger than the just the pay rates you see on APC.