Originally Posted by Lewbronski

Thats true, but he/she didn’t mention vacation as one of the things that enabled them to consistently pull off 180 TFP per month. They cited ELITT, sick calls, and the overlap as the tools they use.

But, if you did manage to pull off 200 TFP each month you had vacation, then it would bring the average TFP per month to make $300K as a fifth year FO for the remaining nine months of the year down to 155 TFP.

i was able to pull off a little over 200 TFP in July with a vacation week but it required me flying over vacation and my seniority allowed me to clear most of the month with my one week of vacation.

I also had vacation in May and June and pulled 175 TFP and 185 TFP respectively while flying premium on vacation. Without vacation, I get nowhere near those totals primarily because virtually no one picks up from TTGA and it’s very difficult to trade down via ELITT.

If I wanted to fly 18 days per month in non-vacation months, then maybe I could get up to 160-ish TFP if I scored a couple of premium 35 TFP 3-days but those are pretty rare in open time, are usually high block trips, and would be difficult to not go over block time limits if I had to fly most of the rest of my line at straight pay (because getting rid of straight-paying days is difficult via TTGA and ELITT).

Depending on the month it might also be difficult to get the second premium 35 TFP 3-day because I’d be over the cap when bidding on it.

So, no I don’t think making over $300K as a fifth year SWA FO is something that can be easily accomplished. Like you explained, maybe some guys who work really hard at it could do it, but to imply that it is “easy” is an enormous exaggeration.