The company will never let the bonuses expire And if they do there will be a mass exodus and it will be very hard for them to hire pilots.

 

Ok thanks for your response. I'm looking at Endeavor as a potential employer once I'm fully certified and meet ATP mins. I have plenty of family in the New York area and a significant other living in Toronto Canada. So I like the idea of either operating a flight into Toronto on an overnight or if on a deadhead, being able to change it to a commercial deadhead home instead. Outside of open time pick ups, what are other ways one can increase pay.


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A thought for those more knowledgeable than I am, given the difference in how egregiously the bonus we currently have in place is taxed vs actual hourly pay, would the proposed 83 hr credit rate to break even really be that big of a difference for someone who credits 75 consistently now with the bonus scheme in place?

 

Open time is really your best way. All open time is 150% and some is 200% but usually just last minute trips during irop recovery. But if you live in or around NY you can clean up 200% open time pay. Just call up scheduling and say show me the money haha. Other than that, you can get creative with how you bid to make more money.

You can also enable Max line range when bidding to get more efficient trips that put you over 85 hours for the month, guaranteeing you some premium pay, as the open time tends to dry up quickly after the schedule comes out.

High density short trips with lots of days off are good goals, then pick up open time. Open time cdo's (one day overnight red eye trips), which are awesome if you live in base.

There are lots of guys crediting over 100 hours per month every month. I'm not one of them. (days off=gold).

And then there are the guys who make 10k per year with referral bonuses. Guess they're basically just freelance recruiters in their downtime haha.

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The bonuses are taxed at the same rate as any other pay. The only difference is the withholding is higher. They take more out of your paycheck but you get it back when you file your taxes if you paid too much. At the end of the year you end up with the same amount of money.

 

Let the bonus expire, watch the operation fall apart and a mass exodus happen.

 

I'm losing money every month we drag this out. I think I've been south of 83 hours once this year (recurrent). 99 hours in a month with differences, 120 in a buildup month. I like days off too, just have to be clever.

No bonus. Hourly. I've told my reps.

 

Don,t settle for 83 hrs. Be patient. A pay raise for everyone on property

 

100% agree! But it will never get that far.

 

I believe the company will simply extend the bonus, and just drag its feet if no agreement is inked. It's the loss of the extra items with the bonus counted as salary that we are losing.