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Old 07-02-2008 | 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by dojetdriver
But when you are basically on reserve for that period where you were substituted and get called to fly, does that time get paid above your ORIGINALLY scheduled trip's credit? In other words, original trip worth 80 hours, get pulled off and reassigned to 25 hours of flying, do you know get 105 hours pay credit or just the 80?
Originally Posted by dojetdriver


Just the 80.

You are pay protected for the dropped trip. You don't earn extra for trips you are now assigned. You just fly them in lieu of the one you're getting pay protected for.

If the trips you fly pay more than the one that was dropped, you get paid for what you flew.

Originally Posted by dojetdriver
Or, are you pay protected on the original trip and if your new assignment doesn't exceed that, you simply get what the original was worth?

Yes.

Originally Posted by dojetdriver
OR, does it reduce you down to your minimum applicable monthly guarantee for that bid period's length and your new trip would have to exceed that to break it?


No - it's does not affect the whole month's guarantee.

You do have some control over your situation:
1- You can refuse substitution and lose the trip guarantee. Those hours can be flown when you choose (up to 2 bid periods later, I think) at 125% of the original pay.
2- They may also offer you a re-assignment trip immediately when your original trip is cancelled. You can refuse that too and get the hours at 125% too.

Not a bad deal if you have the scheduling flexibility (i.e. you live in domicile). A commuter who was planning on working those days may not want to re-flow his month.

There's a lot more to this but that's a broad overview.
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