Originally Posted by
Andy
93 hrs divided by 10.5 days. That's averaging 10 hrs/day of pay. Is that normal at Delta on narrowbodies? Even with premium pay, that sounds high. Good on ya.
I think you're reading too much about my comment of 'working the system'. I've worked the system before and pulled down some decent paychecks. A lot of people do it and a lot of people go for working the minimum. The nice thing about this job is we have flexibility to do so.
I’m someone else, but I’ve had numerous trips buys where entire 5 day trip bought (28-30 hours), then did a 2 day double time trips for another 21 hours (usually less than 3 hours total flying, 2 short legs) for a total of 49-51 hours. I count those hours as 2 days work even though I was technically getting paid for 9 days. Skews the average per day way up. Just an example. Lots of other things raise the credit way up. Reroutes, paid for illegally assigned trips, etc.
The airline pays a ton when short-staffed and in IROPS which it has been since 2020.