Originally Posted by
fatmike69
Block hours=hours you actually fly. Usually from the time the door closes to the time the door opens. This is what is used for legality purposes as well as what you can put in your logbook. Credit is what you get paid. So, if the gaurunteed credit is 43 minutes for the flight and you fly faster, say 39 minutes, you still get 43 minutes of pay (credit pay) but log 39 minutes of flight time (block time).
Correct, I'll just add a little to that. At SKW when you get your schedule you see two things: Estimated Block & Credit. Estimated block is the time that your code share (United/Delta @ SKW) says the flight should take. Credit is Historic Block, in other words, the historic average block of how long the flight actually took. Credit is what we get paid unless Actual Block (what we fly) exceeds credit then we get paid Actual Block (we get paid the better of the two: Actual Block or Credit).
I hope this helps.