Originally Posted by
pitchattitude
Still depends on the base and equipment. As an FO, might even as a CA, you might get displaced for IOE, or MGT/AETC flying. Trips that get pulled because of misconnect or MX cancel. Add on top of that scarcity of OT, and I would say it is difficult to CONSISTENTLY log more than 80 hours, even as a line holder. May still get payed for slightly more, but our guarantee is only the bid amount of the line for the month. Even if you overblock a few trips, something gets pulled from you and that over block just goes towards covering that flight.
I wouldn't say OT is scarce. There are 331 trips open right now in DFL, over 400 in OFL. I have over 50 trips that I'm legal to pick up right now for April in DFW alone. ORD adds another 50 or 60. And that as a RSV guy. I can easily pick up OT to drop down to 8 days off, for lineholders this is even easier.
These comments aren't really relevant for DECs though, so maybe we should continue it somewhere else.