Pay statement
 

Does anyone have a pay statement for 04/13 or a paycheck yet?

Isn't it usually 4/15? I suspect I'll see it hit my account later today and pay statement in two days.

Previously, it's been on the 13th. But the 15th is good too as long as I haven't been fired.

I heard they removed their mutual agreement portion of paying us….

we get paid on the 15th and the last day of the month, if either of those days fall on a weekend or bank holiday, we get paid the business day before

the last 2 months the 15th has fallen on a Sunday, so payday was Friday the 13th

paystubs are available at midnight Mecca time the day before payday. Idk why DL does it that way, probably a control thing.

They haven't necessarily fixed the glitch yet. My bank usually deposits the cash a few days prior to payday, but I don't even bother looking for the statement until the day after payday. As GF said, when the pay hits slides around when payday falls on a weekend.

It's only on the 13th if the 15th is on a Sunday. We get paid on the 15th and last day of the month. It's been that way for at least 20 years..

And yet we have pilots who have been here for 20 years who don’t know how the pay is broken down between the 2 different pay checks…

It’s never too late to ask questions. "I am aware of only one thing: my ignorance." Plato.

I don’t understand our pay, and at this point I’m too embarrassed to ask

Apparently the company doesn't understand our pay either...

I know this is probably TIC, but if it’s not or for anyone who actually doesn’t understand and doesn’t want to ask.

EOM paycheck - 1/2 reserve guarantee for that month (at lowest rate if on a multi payrate fleet.) + any performance bonus (D0/A0 goals. usually about $100)

15th paycheck- the difference between the dollar amount you earned the previous month and what was paid on the prior EOM paycheck. Plus all per diem.

Does anyone have any feedback on the new pilot pay app?

My paycheck is in my account (USAA).

Is that what that extra $100 or whatever is for? Company achieved D0/A0 goals, or crew achieved D0/A0 goals?

Yeah.....it's labeled "Shared Rewards" and anywhere from 0 to $100 per month.

i have found under normal circumstances (holidays and Sundays excluded), After midnight Mecca time on the 13th or two days prior to the EOM day the pay statement will be available in the self sever area.

I’ve almost never seen that. Usually 1700 on the 14th or even later.

company goals. Everyone gets the same $ amount

Ah, I thought it was because I wait to start the APU until D-8.

/s

Any international cats seeing a small portion of their international per diem suddenly being taxed with no domestic layovers? This started in FEB.

Not everyone. They changed the plan so that under certain circumstances the non-cons can get more than the pilots. Because they “have to honor” the pwa as written.

to be honest, I didn’t know the non cons got that bonus. I just meant all pilots got the same $. I figured the non cons had a different structure.

but that sounds on brand for this management team.

I think this started showing up in February because of our Jan-Dec per diem setting timing.

This year's international per diem exceeds the GSA (federal) maximum daily allowance. The amount that exceeds the GSA rate is subject to tax withholdings, Social Security and Medicare. When we get our 2026 W-2, it'll show up under one of those weird letter codes as taxable income.

More information is available with a search using the phrase "perdiem that exceeds federal limits"

This makes sense. Thank you Captain!

No worries, neither does the company. You can't get it wrong if nobody knows what's right.

...and that's yet another area where the company "re-interpreted" ... its contractual, and always in the past we got the same as the noncons ($0-$100).

Over the winter they started only giving the pilots 3 of the 4 items because of how it is worded in the PWA ... so now the max we will get is $75. The Union wasn't interested in grieving it.

The program was always 3 components: on time, baggage, and completion. For 2026 they added a 4th component and changed the calculation method for non contract employees. One month that resulted in a $75 payment for them, and a $50 payment for us. ALPA didn’t grieve it because there wasn’t anything to grieve, the payment to the pilots was still the same as previous years and in compliance with the PWA. They didn’t take anything away from the pilots, rather gave something extra to the other employees.

Could they have also given pilots the $75? Of course. But they claimed that they had to “honor the contract” as written.