I'm not really a payrate as #1 guy. For me it is about #3 or 4. The problem is trying to put the preceders in order.

Scope recapture #1 probably:

This includes either reigning in the Alaska scope or merging with them. I'm a mid seniority person and that is mid seniority flying. The Horizon and Skywest arrangement is another potential scope end around whether we merge or not. The new turboprop Horizon is getting is a 100 seat class, extremely efficient airframe.

76 seater - I'd love that flying at mainline regardless of the payrate. Problem is, our MEC dumped the pilots we represented just in time for the company to dump the planes and pilots...how do we recapture that? Nah, no collusion there.

Int'l JV stuff, we'll be skyteam airlines before I retire.

401k maxed out to the 415C limit of $49K per year paid by the company. It is a pretax expense. This is in and of itself a payraise/pay recapture because we have to fund it now ourselves (with a company match) even after the paycuts.

Workrule restoration of all of the goodstuff. If youve never had a power moveup you dont know what the good life is.

Pay raises...BIG frikkin pay raises.

Really? So you're saying that your bonus was less than 3.25% when it was supposed to be 6.5% of your 2010 taxable income? What was the gross pay for your bonus?

Does anyone know what LCS indicates under status when viewing your schedule in icrew?

Thanks

Gotta love taxes huh?

Well, his post kinda scared me. I thought he was saying his GROSS bonus pay was only 3.25%. Hopefully, he was just talking about his NET pay. I planned on Delta taxing the bonus using the flat 25% IRS witholding (about another 10% for California) since that was a "worst case" scenario. Add Medicare, SDI, DPMA, and ALPA and you're looking at another 8% or so. Altogether, about 43% is going to get deducted from the bonus according to my calculations.

I am pretty sure I see mine pending too. It was about 60% of the amount I was expecting based on the 6.5% number...but I did have a little mil leave I wasn't sure what they were going to do about.

Plus whatever percentage you put in your 401k.

Mine came within $100 of 6.5% minus my estimated deductions. We'll see the real numbers by Sunday.

ALPA released a memo a few days ago saying that the calculation of a pilot's annual income would be adjusted to the extent they would have made if not on MLOA. Not sure if they'd be using the ALV, guarantee, or what. The memo didn't get that specific.

I was on MLOA for about 2 months last year. My check was about $2500 FWIW.

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