Yes, the extra $100 is true, and it becomes $200 on days 19 and above. Also an extra $100 if your duty day exceeds 12hrs. On an 8-6 schedule you work 16-17 days per month. On the other schedules anything between 14 and 16. If you're good at bidding and are senior enough to hold it, you can line things up to get 17-18 days on pretty consistently. There are opportunities to pick up extra days, more so on the CA side, but as staffing improves there will be less. An average day is 3-4 legs with 20-45 min turns. On some days throw a deadhead in there as well. There is the occasional 2-3 hour sit but it's not common. It's definitely not a bad place to be. There are aspects that could be improved as with any growing company, but people on the line are happy and there are good things on the horizon. The planes are showing up relatively on time compared to what was promised and so are the new route openings. A completely new scheduling system is in the works that should be ready in about 6 months and is supposed to fix a lot of the issues people are complaining about. It's honestly the thing I most look forward to.

 

What are you on about? You make zero sense you doing alright over there budd?

 

This thread has been informational and effective providing factual based data. Lets keep it that way so others can form their own opinions.

 

Pm him... Lets not derail this whole thread

 

Thank you! Does JetSuiteX have guaranteed days off per month? The first $10k come after completion of IOE? Does the “bonus” get taxed differently? In avg with all the added stuff, how much would you say a year 1 captain takes home first year?

 

Absolutely! You bid your schedule in 56 day cycles, so you will know your days off in advance for that period. About half of the schedule options are 8/6 and the others vary somewhat depending on what the planner comes up with for the bid cycle. This time around there were a lot which were mostly 5/4, a couple of 7/7, and a few completely random ones. 8/6 tends to go senior.

The bonus is paid 10k after IOE, 10k at your year 1 anniversary, and 10k at your year 2 anniversary. It's withheld at a higher rate but effectively taxed at your regular rate, you'll just get the difference back in your tax refund.

I did a rough calculation on first year CA pay assuming just straight 16 days on (so no 17th day on the overtime rate, and no picking up extra days) and it comes out to 85k. If you add the per-diem then it brings it to 95k. Add the bonus and it's 105k.

 

Thanks for the response! Using the 8/6 as an example, I’d take minimum guaranteed days off per month would be 12?

Out of those 8 days that you’re flying, how often would you say you get to overnight in base?

 

So does JetSuiteX do the rotation schedule like JetSuite? I'm a little confused on what the schedule is like on the X side in particular? Thanks!

 

Not at jetsuite but based on the 56 cycle and 8/6 the normal days of would be 24 days off per 56 days, around 13 days per month (12 days off per 4 weeks or 28 days, 30.5 days in a month).

Still don't work there, but the frac I was at it was safest to count on zero days at home during tour....

 

It's all across the board at X. I've done rotations with all 8 days away from home and others with only 1 or 2 overnights out of base, it's hard to predict.