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Old 07-05-2019 | 06:36 PM
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havick206
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Originally Posted by dera
06/28/2019 Regular/Direct $3,1xx.xx
06/14/2019 Regular/Direct $1,1xx.xx

TTL 99:14 72:00 101:21 101:21 *

Next month will be a bit better than that one. Notice the low original line value. July is turning out to be about the same as what I posted above.
And no it's not the norm, but it's possible. Someone saying it's impossible is just wrong. There are guys making way, way more than this because they are senior enough to get what they want. The key for them is to get one of the insane day trip lines, drop a few and pick up a few of the same on different days. Gets you up to 110-130 (depends on the critical coverage availability) hour credit pretty easily, with 18-19 days off.
An average FO can't even smell these lines though, these are saved for the FOs who have been "medically unfit" for 7-8 years and now that their flow is approaching, they are suddenly feeling better.

I had 9 days off that month with 4 day turns, so 13 "nights off" when I was home at night. Better than some hard lines.
Here’s the thing. You live in base and pick up anything you can.

I made that sort of money as a LGA FO back in 2016/2017 but I lived in base and played the game well.

The reality is 95% of the pilots don’t have the ability to do that so it’s not realistic. We were the minority making that coin as FO’s.