Alright, just for fun lets see what our hourly wages would be if we were paid by time away from base (TAFB) which is duty plus overnight. Without having the specific numbers I just took the min guarantee pay salary per year and divided it out by an average TAFB for the month. I figured the TAFB based on a 4 day trip with 23 hours of credit and 75 hours TAFB which gave me 228 TAFB for the month. Its a ball park for dicussion. So divide monthly pay by 228 hours and here ya go:



My bet, if we ever negotiated this then we'd be doing 23.9 hour 3-days and 29.9 hour 4 days. So you'd hit 70 hours in 3 3-day trips. Again, as ACL said, the people who wrote our contract weren't born yesterday but it is an interesting idea. It'd pretty much be saying "stop wasting my time" and give me a salary that makes comparing us to regular folk more fun. Just imagine the reaction if the numbers leaked out that DAL was to start paying 747/777 Captains $80/hour. People would be livid. But that'd work out to be $218K on min pay.