Originally Posted by
Shaun
^^^ Listing yourself as a Captain on a CL65, you should be smart enough to understand that hourly pay doesn't mean much when calculating actual pay. If you really think that a Skywest pilot takes home the same as a Mesa pilot, you need to study up on a thing called "work rules" and how they can effect a pilot's pay.
You are definitely correct about work rules, however; with all of the double time being credited to Mesa captains this year (via JRA and VOL) you would be very surprised at how much they are pulling down. Quite a few guys are billing out 130-140 credit hours per bid period.