Originally Posted by kalyx522

I don't think you are actually asking these questions but I will answer for the benefit of those applying -

per diem - $1.40/hr, only for overnight trips (not eligible if you are doing out and back trips at the outstation bases.)

no rigs of any kind.

deadhead pay - 50%

cancellation pay - used to be paid original block for weather cx only which was a huge bummer because we have mx cancellations every other day at colgan (sometimes twice in one day) and it truly sucked to start out at 85 hours of block only to end up with minimum guarantee because our planes happen to break often or dispatch decided to swap you into a broken plane. that was the story of my life almost every month last year - start out over guarantee and end up with guarantee. worst part was them making you sit around for hours during said mx. or very easy, minor stuff they could've done on their part to make your life easier - like actually informing the crews of the cancellation and not to show up (or show up later). Most people wouldnt mind the sitting around so much as long as they got paid for it, but we didn't. What the marine guy said, I don't know how he managed to get paid for the the mx cx, you do get lucky ONCE in a while if you sweet talk to the scheduler enough (I've witnessed this happening) but in the end, it's almost impossible to escape the auditing lady's corrrections. Supposedly we get paid for the mx now, the last time I had mx and didn't get paid for it was as recent as new year's eve I think.

no medical reimbursement (I didnt know other companies even have something like this?) but we get 200/a year for uniform, starting at your anniversary date (meaning new hires wont get a penny for the 500-700 they're going to have to shell out.

also just a few other things off the top of my head... reserve pay is 2 hrs/day, training pay is 2 hrs/day (compare with other regionals that pay 4 hrs), no extension pay (and no option of refusing), juniorman pay is 3.75 which you can usually avoid by not picking up your phone on your day off HOWEVER a friend just told me he was extended/juniormanned on his friday two weeks in a row by dispatch refusing to send paperwork for their last flight until the crew called scheduling. oh yeah and frequent repos to and from the gates/hangar in IAD, which you get paid 10 minutes each way even though it takes like 40 minutes minimum, also not that it matters because everyone is under guarantee for the rest of their lives. if you're based in EWR, IAH or IAD you have to pay for your own hotel during recurrent training (Mon-Fri with the new CRM training, so it's 5 nights - need hotel Sun night thru Thurs night - you figure how much that costs in a city like DC!). minimum days off is 10 and even senior lines are rarely more than 13-14.
I used to live with with guys that worked at a different regional. I was hired earlier than they and more senior at colgan than they were at theirs, but somehow when I looked at our lines, they always had more days off yet with more pay. Their QOL was vastly higher than mine. It was just how their contract was set up. of course I had know idea of the nuances of having a good contract until I actually started working for a regional - only that a regional was so called OK or crappy. It's easy to dismiss everyone saying it's crappy if you are not aware of the nitty gritty things that end up making all the difference. Obviously we are in the process of getting a contract as well, but god only knows when that will be done, and what will be included in it. I think things like days off is something the company can easily manipulate and it would not put a strain on the system or anything... but they just dont care to because as far as they're concerned, having an employee group with good morale doesnt benefit them in any way.