Reserve Rules Discussion
01-08-2022, 09:15 AM
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Reserve Rules Discussion
Originally Posted by G4poor
Allegiant
7 year CA
W2 $215,000
401k Employer Contribution $21,000
Total $236,000
Plus a 15% discount on $25,000 stock purchase bumps it up to around $240,000
Live in base
Reserve
Weekends and holidays off
3 weeks vacation
370 Block
80 days worked
0 overnights
I feel like I’m wasting a very lucrative career staying here after seeing some of these other posts. I keep telling myself the next contract will be industry standard.
7 year CA
W2 $215,000
401k Employer Contribution $21,000
Total $236,000
Plus a 15% discount on $25,000 stock purchase bumps it up to around $240,000
Live in base
Reserve
Weekends and holidays off
3 weeks vacation
370 Block
80 days worked
0 overnights
I feel like I’m wasting a very lucrative career staying here after seeing some of these other posts. I keep telling myself the next contract will be industry standard.
Also, you picked up an additional 39k of pay over min guarantee and never worked a weekend?
01-08-2022, 09:49 AM
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Posts: 751
Originally Posted by KC135
Wow you're only on reserve 6.7 days a month on average, that's impressive. Surely you aren't misleading anyone by leaving off unused reserve days?
Also, you picked up an additional 39k of pay over min guarantee and never worked a weekend?
Also, you picked up an additional 39k of pay over min guarantee and never worked a weekend?
01-08-2022, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by KC135
Wow you're only on reserve 6.7 days a month on average, that's impressive. Surely you aren't misleading anyone by leaving off unused reserve days?
Also, you picked up an additional 39k of pay over min guarantee and never worked a weekend?
Also, you picked up an additional 39k of pay over min guarantee and never worked a weekend?
01-08-2022, 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by G4poor
A bit misleading. 80 days of flying. Too many reserve days not called in to count. I take 200% pick ups any day of the week if I’m up for it. Bid for weekends off 10 months out of the year but bid to fly weekends when it suited me if I wanted blocks of time off. I worked an average of one full weekend per month.
01-08-2022, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by icohftb
Is it an abnormality to have so many unused reserve days? Living in base sounds like a pretty nice deal.
01-10-2022, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by BoilerUP
You only worked a maximum of 118 days, but at a 3rd year WB FO rate of $191.08 generated 3200+ hours of credit to come to a $620k W2 gross?
Originally Posted by Blkout
Yup!
Most time on the road would only work at 150-200% and extensions. And like I said, actually I cut out many of those 118 days on first class deadheads late on front end or early on backend. I was routinely the only passenger on the Delta flights to SYD. That rate doesn’t take any consideration to other pay parameters that add up fast.
Most time on the road would only work at 150-200% and extensions. And like I said, actually I cut out many of those 118 days on first class deadheads late on front end or early on backend. I was routinely the only passenger on the Delta flights to SYD. That rate doesn’t take any consideration to other pay parameters that add up fast.
Hello, fellow FedEx guy here. I'm trying to wrap my head around this also....I knew some of our guys were putting up big numbers, but my assumption was that they were working for it! You said you extended a lot but also averaged only 10 days or so a month? I know folks were extending frequently (especially during early COVID), but the price for that was a long blue line on the calendar.
01-10-2022, 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Bfiftyeight
Hello, fellow FedEx guy here. I'm trying to wrap my head around this also....I knew some of our guys were putting up big numbers, but my assumption was that they were working for it! You said you extended a lot but also averaged only 10 days or so a month? I know folks were extending frequently (especially during early COVID), but the price for that was a long blue line on the calendar.
01-10-2022, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by 172skychicken
A lot of the puzzling W2 to days worked ratios on here come from people counting unused reserve days as either days off or leaving them off of days worked. A questionable practice at best. Doesn't seem to be unique to any particular airline.
01-10-2022, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by 172skychicken
A lot of the puzzling W2 to days worked ratios on here come from people counting unused reserve days as either days off or leaving them off of days worked. A questionable practice at best. Doesn't seem to be unique to any particular airline.
That would certainly make sense, however the “extensions” that Blkout is referring to are voluntary extensions in the field @ 200%. I’m never the smartest guy in the room, so I’m genuinely curious. Again, I knew that we (FedEx) had wide body FO’s getting close to and exceeding the 700k mark, but I assumed they were working far more than 118 days. I also assumed that some of that capability came from the advantages inherent in seniority, but he’s quite junior.
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