Originally Posted by
dontsurf
and just for some understanding, since i know some of you guys are way more versed in this stuff, and since i never asked those American pilots why their trips paid 30 hours for just one flight over and one flight back, what must the differences be between their CBA and ours in this regard? what is it that would turn their 3 day trip to brussels and back, for example, into a 30 hour payday, and for us it's only 15 hours?
No clue. Perhaps he bid reserve at ~75 hour guarantee, got used only one or two trips a month, and picked up a prem trip to bump the guarantee? So he only "worked" 9 days, but was on call others. Their rigs are basically the same as ours, so I don't see how they can credit 10 hrs a day over only 9 work days a month, but I haven't examined their contracts or trips that closely in that regard, so I'm just speculating.