Originally Posted by
DC8DRIVER
You've pretty much got it.
So if your ticket from home to ANC costs them $2,000 and your taxable rate is 22%) they'll cut $440 from your check.
Then they'll deduct that again for your ticket home (and $ for any hotels you'll need, too).
And don't forget this is all deducted from that awesome 50 hour-per-month guarantee!
Thanks. So, why is this being described as something punitive the company is doing to the pilot group? I'm not a tax expert by any means, but this is more or less what I would expect would be required by the tax code if the company is housing you in domicile and providing you with airline travel from where you're living to your domicile. A lot of airlines (as far as I know) won't buy you a ticket to your domicile or a hotel room while you're there. Sure, it would be better to have home basing, but you don't, and this seems preferable to an airline that expects you to report for duty in your domicile completely on your own tab.