Originally Posted by
Gone Flying
the company is currently paying 200% to the pilot flying and another 100% to a pilot who is not for many of our trips. This is a result of a very broken trip coverage system. The reason for this is we have a contractual way to make them stop at every single pilot who sets up their preferences a certain way for 12 minutes and wait before moving on to the next pilot for any “slip” ( which is a specific request to fly under certain circumstances). Imagine 100+ pilots doing this for a trip that reports in a few hours and you see the problem.
They have to offer a trip for straight time in base lineholders before they can use reserves and straight time out of base before they can offer 200% in base. if they skip these steps to cover a trip, they have to pay the most senior “affected” pilot. There are hundreds of pilots with requests to fly in every base hoping to snag some of that “affected pilot” pay ( also known as 23m7 pay)
The leverage we have is allowing them to cover trips more efficiently and not have to pay 2 pilots for a bunch of trips.
I get the leverage part, but If I were making consistently anything other than straight pay on my trips, I'd be doing everything I could to make that continue. And I'm single digit seniority in my base, so it's not as if I couldn't get whatever was available. We just don't have that in large quantities here so maybe it's just a completely different animal.