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You fly a 40 hour nap line and say get 6 hours premium. Your pay will be 75 hours + 6 hours to equal 81 hours.shamrock said:OK, I have what might be a simple question to everyone but I'd just like some clarification.
What exactly are we talking about with regards to eliminating premium? I'm clear on what premium is, but how will things change? I do naps once in a while and shoot for premium because it's the only way to make money. That pay on top of guarantee would go away if I understand correctly. Now if I do a normal trip blocked to 20 hours but end up early on several legs and fly only 18, what will I get paid for? Will I lose the 2 hours underblock as well?
I'm not as dumb as I look, I swear. Just trying to understand how it all would work.
IFLYASA said:If they do away with premium, it just means you will only get payed 75 hours max, if you bid a line that's blocked less than 75 hours.
ReportCanoa said:Premium is the most absurd thing ever. The fact that they want to do away with is in our favor. Hopefully the CNC will "trade" premium for something else that actually helps. The only thing premium does is encourage some pilots to fly fast and waste fuel. Not very smart of ASA to negotiate in the first place. The duty/trip rig will take care of the nap people, assuming we can negotiate them.
GO AROUND said:I hope the CNC counter proposal slams the companies 3 yr opener!
IFLYASA said:You fly a 40 hour nap line and say get 6 hours premium. Your pay will be 75 hours + 6 hours to equal 81 hours.
Now if you have an 83 hour line premium does nothing for the paycheck (if you fly a 2 hour blocked roundtrip, and do it at 1.75, your pay is 1.75 hours plus the .25 premium to bring it back to 2 hours). Regardless of cancellations you are always gauranteed the 83 hour minimum line, plus any overblock.
If they do away with premium, it just means you will only get payed 75 hours max, if you bid a line that's blocked less than 75 hours.
atrdriver said:That is not really a true statement. Premium is paid on a leg by leg basis, on top of guarantee. My last check I was paid 6.7 hours of premium, and 7 hours of overblock. If premium was eliminated, that would have been 6.7 hours of pay I would not have gotten, even though I was obviously over guarantee. If you take away premium pay you are going to take a paycut, period. The only way that I would agree to having premium cut is with a min day, trip and duty rigs, on a day by day calculation, not the way CMR does theirs, which is on a monthly lookback basis.