Of course cherry picking from a contract doesn't work. I was just remarking that they have some good pay when they get rerouted. For us, it seems like there is less ability to reroute, esp prior to the first leg. But as we've seen lately, scheduling does what they want and then seems to try and avoid paying us. At SWA, they reroute a fair bit it seems, but they get serious $$ when they do. I'm willing to help the company out of a jam, but pay me.

My friend is working about the same days, and the trips aren't onerous. He's getting north of 110 hours some months (converted from TFP) and not working too hard for it. He doesn't play the open time either. It's just things like, his plane arrives at outstation late for his deadhead back to base, so they put him on the next one that goes RDU-MCO-ATL (to get to ATL) and he gets the new deadhead at premium pay (because of a change in his schedule). But he's able to hustle down the terminal and make the original deadhead. So instead of the 1.2 pay for the deadhead, he's making 6 hours. Just things like that are ways the paycheck gets larger without working harder.