Originally Posted by flensr

SWA calculates pay "differently". We use TFP or "Trips For Pay", and it's based on mileage not just block time.

The conversion is right around 1.16. Multiply our TFP pay rate by 1.16 and you'll be kinda sorta close to how our pay would work out if we were paid purely by block time.

There are other rigs and considerations, like at some point our day rigs out based on flight duty period not just block time (10.5 hrs if I recall correctly) so a day with 2 short legs but a huge airport sit in between could pay more than our mins of 5 or 6.5 if the day gets longer than 10.5 hrs. But the main difference is that our basic pay rate is based on a "TFP" calculation which is based on distance. That dates back to our original texas 3-step routes and we've never changed it. It averages out... Flying East in the winter we get paid a bit more than we might otherwise, and flying West we get paid a bit less except when the day gets so long we switch to an FDP based calculation. Mostly it doesn't matter so nobody cares except when trying to compare our payscale to another airline. In that case, multiply our payscale by 1.16 to see a ballpark estimate of what it would pay if we paid by block time instead of the TFP calculation.