Originally Posted by DALFA

Our average block time per duty period is around 6:00. Our average schedule value for June is 85 hours. That's an average of 14 days of flying per flight attendant. So if you average out about 2.4 legs per duty period and you fly 14 days and use 1 duty period per day (even though it's actually less because transoceanic and domestic 30 hour layers have less duty periods than days) then you come up with an average of 33-34 legs per F/A per month. Take 33 legs and apply the 40 minutes of pay and you essentially end up with 11 hours of flight pay on top of the 85 block hours. So using this, you end up with 13% in additional pay but that number is inflated because 1/3 of all block hours are international that those trips have 2 duty periods per 3 day trip (or sometimes even 4 days) and therefore the average is actually lower than 33 legs per month. More like 26-28 legs per month. Then add in the other things I mentioned such as not having any impact on vacation and sick time...and that's how I got to 10% (or even less).