what about monthly hours? Should you just budget for 64 Guarantee, or is MORE available if you want it?
if so what’s a good guesstimate of how many hours you could do in a month?

thanks in advance!

 

Lots of moving parts with this question, but a few factors to consider.

definitely always budget for the monthly (minimum) pay guarantee (MPG), you and the family won’t be disappointed or caught off guard. We can all end up in the “Jelly of the month” club vs. putting in the swimming pool! 😀

it’s almost impossible to predict with any real accuracy on slow times of the year vs. busy. Current factors are attrition and staffing for each airframe, additional demand from our customer base, new business (sub-service) for other carriers, general chaos in the world at large that mainline carriers can’t or won’t touch from a business model stand point, etc.

with that, as a snap shot, there is plenty of extra flying opportunities on OFF days; which means time away from family and friends.

Pay Credit Hours (PCH) can be over and above the 64 guarantee, but too many nuances to mention here.

Hope this helps.

 

yes, plan on guarantee. There is a program that has an 80 guarantee but it’s full up right now. Once you’re senior enough you can bid a few of the SEA hard lines that are 72-78 hours. It varies. In general you’ll fly 25-45 and be paid 64. You will be on short/long call reserve at hotels all over the planet. Most lines are one block of 16 days, some lines are two blocks broken up.
OT is currently available, but is best described as feast or famine most often. With the pilot shortage we seem to be losing on average 1 a week, so the OT opportunity may be more prevalent, but I’d just plan on 64. There is soft money for taking coach instead of business/first, but again I wouldn’t budget on it.

 

if you fly overtime while we are in contract negotiations, you are an a**hole!!
T207

 

Why is that?

 

because it helps the company and works against the pilot group as we try to get a new contract. It should be obvious unless you have never worked at a union shop.

 

I’m all for the ********* pilots filling their bank accounts as much as possible on OT for that horrible first year pay at AA or UPS.

 

It's on. Like Donkey Kong.

 

What does AA or UPS have to do with Omni? This is an Omni thread. What they do is their business, I’m only referring to Omni pilots during our current negotiations.

 

That's the silliest thing I have ever heard. Working OT on first year pay is still less than second year pay. If you're going to run yourself into the ground for $$$, at least do it on second year pay when it costs the company considerably more and actually makes a noticeable difference to your bank account.