Originally Posted by
HPIC
Nobody flies only Art 33 flights. A few legs here and there…not every single one and certainly not 90 hours worth.
You’re basing this on working every day of the month and that China/HKG will remain Art 33. That is not contractual. The company can cancel those at any time with 48 hours notice and 175% pay is gone for those countries(unless CDC level 4 or declared a hostile area).
This scenario assumes you never take vacation and you don’t have to go to training for an entire year. It also puts you over the legal limit of flight time of 1,000 hours in 12 calendar months.
Per diem should never be considered as part of pay.
You’re stacking everything for you and still not getting to the mythical $450k. As I stated originally….impossible.
I'm doing around 50 hours of article 33 this month. ANC-China-ICN, ICN-China-ANC. That's almost 30 hours already. 3 of those trips would get you to 90 hours. Which is not outside the realm of possibilities if you outbase in ICN. I'm on my second one of those this month.
But I agree, I don't know how to get to 450k, I was just playing with the numbers to see what it would require. And as I said as a conclusion, 400k is not "impossible" but it's unrealistic. 420k would be the absolute best case scenario and really pretty much impossible to achieve in real world. So just to be clear, I wasn't defending the company claims, I was just seeing how far you could go.