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Airfix
While we are on the topic I have always been a little confused between pay and credit and I haven't been able to read a good definition of credit in the PWA or Scheduling Reference Handbook, would someone mind clarifying it?
Pay is obvious. It's what you get paid for a trip the highest of your actual block time, your average daily guarantee or the trip rig (1 for 3.5 TAFB) or duty rig (1 for 2 FDP).
Credit I've always understood it to be the amount of time that applies to PWA sections such as reserve guarantee and green slip triggers etc. However I'm not sure I understand the difference between credit shown on the rotation and credit applied to the PWA sections. Also I know that on a carry out paring credit is paid in the following month. I'm not sure I understand the differences between the types of credit. Can someone explain the different types of credit and the difference between pay and credit more clearly?
I'm kind of embarrassed that I don't have a good understanding of something so critical to our pwa.
Airfix
Credit in terms of our pay system and credit in terms of rotation construction are two separate concepts. It’s also separate from credit for PBS.
For rotation construction, credit is anything that is not block time.
For our pay system, everything is pay. Some things are credit. That’s why you can have pay and credit, pay no credit, or double pay no credit, but you can never have credit no pay. The items that are credit count against reserve guarantee because reserve guarantee is a pay and credit item. So SCC or a regular reserve assignment which is pay an credit offsets reserve guarantee. While a reserve GS on X days is pay no credit, and doesn’t offset guarantee. The WS pickup limit is a credit limit, so all credit items count, but pay no credit items don’t (GS, vacation, etc..). Where it gets confusing is the GS trigger. It includes all credit items, plus some pay no credit items like vacation. That’s why you see a separate line on your time card of “credit applicable to GS pay” which may or may not be the same as your total credit.