Originally Posted by
wrxpilot
I’m on 3rd year WB FO pay, made more than the number you posted, had Thanksgiving and Xmas off, also had most of Feb, Mar, Oct, Nov, and Dec off. I blocked 360 hours. I did work pretty hard the other months, but it’s not like I was never home during those months either.
Yes, you did work pretty hard those other months. At your pay rate with international override included, you had to earn over 1500 credit hours. Even if all of that extra was earned at 200%, that means you worked an extra 25 or more days that year. That’s almost two extra months worth of work days.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t do it or that it can’t be done, only that you can’t do it by just working 10-13 days in a 4 week month and 15-17 days in a 5 week month. You can’t make over $300k as a second or third year wide body FO if you just fly your line and don’t fly extra.
Some people get the holidays off. I have never worked Christmas either. However, we have trips that work over those holidays and there are pilots that fly them that don’t want to but couldn’t get rid of them. I’m just trying to make sure that some one doesn’t get the impression that they are guaranteed to have weekends and holidays off, have as much time off as they want, and still make over $300k their second or third year here. That is the impression I see in some of the posts. Just trying to keep it real.