Originally Posted by
FL370esq
Or the NB Capt categories where the top 1/3 can't hold decent vacation weeks....that just ain't right. Guess that was "their" solution to last summer's goat rope.
Poor wording on my part. My 1/3rd comment was in reference to coverage. Decrease in premium vacation weeks was more a general comment since it seems to have been a trend this year.
Originally Posted by
TED74
I fly with former (relatively senior) WB Bs who say their pay as NB A is a significant jump over their previous earnings. What do you figure your theoretical difference to be such that you call it only a "little bump"?
I'm ~90% in my current category and would be that or worse on any NB A in my base (I won't commute). To jump to NB A, I figured somewhere between 2-4k/month increase BEFORE taxes. When you look at it through the lens of pay per day worked it isn't a huge increase. In many instances, day-for-day, I'm very close or even slightly ahead of those in the 320A. On top of that, save a few holidays, I have nearly complete control over my schedule in my current category. I basically drop everything and pick up the more efficient trips that easily allow me to close the gap on pay/day worked. This is before I even consider the fact that sitting reserve in base for me drives that number up big time, not to mention QOL on reserve is MUCH better on a WB. Based on the NB A wides/coverage, I'd have nearly zero control over my schedule, which be a huge hit in QOL.
Oddly enough, as I work my way up to 12 year pay, the pay gap gets less and less.
Originally Posted by
DWC CAP10 USAF
If line holders can’t be given coverage trips, why are there two different colors on the wide report? The light blue rotations are the normally assigned trips, so what do you call the purple rotations?
Coverage for line holders can only go up to 70% (of line holders) in non-holiday months and 50% in holiday months. On reserve, coverage is dictated my 12.M.4, which in some categories means each X-day needs to be available once. This means the number 2 guy bidding reserve could easily be subject to coverage.