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Originally Posted by Fat263 (Post 2715919)

I was told hourly compensation will be reset Somewhere in the area 8.50an hour to 8.75an hour

Told by who? LOL

They do this every few years - resets the longevity of the contract workers. The regional pilot shortage is why this has been temporarily suspended at DCI.

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Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 2716033)

Employees and immediate family are exempt under federal law from imputed taxes on airline passes. Passes given to those outside of immediate family either have to pay what the IRS considers a reasonable charge or pay imputed income on the value of the tickets. This is a IRS not Delta rule and consistent with how perks like a company car are taxed in any business.
The only miracle is that we have been able to hold onto the exemption for immediate family!

Do you work for DGS?

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Originally Posted by gloopy (Post 2715850)

I think that means they'd calculate the buddy pass yield fare and then instead of charging that to the employee, they'd put that amount into income for the purpose of taxing it. So a $200 fee would be treated like $200 of income and you'd pay whatever taxes you'd owe for that amount in conjunction with the rest of your income etc.

Yield fares are different than imputed income. You can see how much a yield fare is on Travelnet. Usually it's like 10% of the Y class fare for that date. Sometimes, it's not much more expensive to buy a basic economy fare at a discount.

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Originally Posted by Fat263 (Post 2715919)

I was told hourly compensation will be reset Somewhere in the area 8.50an hour to 8.75an hour

Oh boy! Guess they will get the cream of the crop

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Originally Posted by CBreezy (Post 2716105)

I was just speculating what was being talked about by imputed income for yield fares relative to this DGS discussion. I assumed it meant that for the purpose of the fare, for whoever it applied to, they'd take the yield fare amount and calculate that as imputed income for taxes. So while yield fares and imputed income aren't the same thing necessarily (our buddy pass charges are yield fare but not imputed income for example) it is possible to calculate inputed income based off of the yield fare if that's how they chose to do it.

As to wether or not that is how they actually chose to do it, I'm not sure. I was just speculating one way as to how they could if they wanted to based on what was said about the new system so far.

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Originally Posted by msprj2 (Post 2716125)

Oh boy! Guess they will get the cream of the crop

Hopefully the entire operation will brought back in house right? Wishful thinking maybe.

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Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 2716033)

There are airlines out there that do it as imputed income as a disincentive to using pass benefits. This is apparently how Alaska operates.

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Originally Posted by Pvinder (Post 2716064)

Do you work for DGS?

I think he works for the parent company 😂

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Originally Posted by PassportPlump (Post 2716325)

I think he works for the parent company 😂

More like stepparent company lol