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[Talian]

Being from the corporate world all the terms such as trip/duty rigs have me a bit confused. Regardless of what type you use does it still equate to the hourly rate times your 75 hours a month or does it allow you to make more?

 

[BoilerUP]

Being from the corporate world all the terms such as trip/duty rigs have me a bit confused. Regardless of what type you use does it still equate to the hourly rate times your 75 hours a month or does it allow you to make more?

A rig is typically designed to protect you from crappy trips.

Say you are scheduled 6:45 flight hours in a day, and due to delays you end up timing out at 16 hours. You are paid "greater of" as a lineholder, so you will be paid 8 hours (1 hour pay for every 2 hours duty) for that day.

Trip rig is based upon time away from base (TAFB) and protects you from long, crappy, unproductive trips. For example, a 4 day trip that has 84 hours away from base but only 17:52 hours of flight time will pa you 20.75 hours of pay (1 hour of pay for 4 hours of time away from base). IIRC, this rig was 3.5:1 or maybe 3.75:1 under the 2001 contract, and was reduced to 4:1 in the current concessionary CBA.

On reserve? Expect to get paid 75 hours most months.

 

[FL280]

2001 contract... 3.5:1

 

[BoilerUP]

Where there ya go; with the old 3.5:1 trip rig, that 84 hour TAFB/17:52 block trip in the example would have paid at least 24 hours.

 

[Talian]

Thanks for the info