Originally Posted by
capt_zman
How can that be? The senior pilot's passover pay doesn't activate until he/himself activates, and to my knowledge there hasn't been anyone (except purple nuggets) go to school and activate who would trigger passover.
I've been waiting 5 months as a MEM guy to go to school and am the 1st one to go in Sept. May 21 was the cutoff date for non-nugget md11 training and all the ANC guys are still waiting, thus not eligible for passover yet. I'll be really interested in knowing how your SO friend is getting passover pay.
By the way, this whole nugget process blows.
It is true...
The company started paying passover pay to pilots who bid ANC on bid 0503 or bid 0602 and have not gone to training.
The first "nugget" activated on Aug 24 and all affected pilots got an email and notification saying that they are receiving passover pay "for all trips flown in Aug bid month from the 24th on AND for everything starting with the Sept bid month."
The email stated that it should be reflected on the Sep 15th pay statement.
They also explained that an LOA changed the contract provision that passover pay was to be paid after the individual activated in the seat. The LOA changed it to "as soon as the junior guy activates".