Originally Posted by
Qotsaautopilot
It’s going to be less each check though bc we aren’t taking anymore 321s and are still growing. You understand that right? It’s based on 321 block hours which are mostly fixed at this point. So it’s a fixed amount of money the company is paying out but spread over more pilots as we grow. It sounds silly but as we grow you’d fly the 321 less often meaning if you it only paid when you flew it it would be a shrinking amount in your paycheck than before. Just another way to calculate it.
Point being the company doesn’t care. We have a fixed number of 321s flying a general fixed number of block outs so the company is paying a mostly fixed dollar amount for the override every month. They don’t care if they pay that dollar amount to 1 guy or 3000 guys. It’s the same amount of money.
I understood the math. It’s not enough money to keep me up at night. If I get it great. If I don’t get it oh well. I’d rather get that 40% more that other airline pilots are making. This override is a rounding error. But that’s me.
Besides, a 220 crew might end up making more on the occasional Deep South trip that the bus can’t do. There’s lots of variables, and it’s all conjecture until people start walking down the jet bridge to fly one.