Does Flex pay as well as NetJets

[Club ORD FO]

I'm on the 15 day. Simple reason - the least amount of days I can work. If they had a 12 day schedule, I'd bid it. As I said earlier - quality of life is my main goal.

Flexjet has a 12 day schedule. its niiiiiiiiiiice

 

[rajflyboy]

+1 Jack. 13% is a pipe dream. I haven't done an extended day in over a year and homey won't be getting paid holiday, hourly, etc. even AFTER November.

Exactly

Most of us don't have special LOA's that give us a percentage of OT added to our pay

when the mainline pilot makes no where near that amount

 

[gutshotdraw]

I'm confused. As far as I know the LOAs, while allowing you to keep your higher base pay, do not exclude you from O/T, holiday, after midnight etc as prescribed in the contract. Am I missing something?

I'll explain it over a beer or three sometime. It's...."complicated." Even a friend of mine who is a union poo-bah doesn't quite get it.

As for extended days, there haven't been many to go around anyway and the one time scheduling asked me to do a planned extended trip I politely declined since I'm not hip to scheduled overtime when guys are on furlough.

Sorry if this hijacked a Flex thread...

 

[jonjuan]

Flexjet has a 12 day schedule. its niiiiiiiiiiice

Better than avantairs new 14/14 schedule. Thanks, B19.

 

[Blueridgeflyer]

Seems Flex guys get their preferred air carrier more, at least the ones based at DFW. I always notice their pilots boarding in the Advantage Platinum group while I board with the lowly priority access Gold.

 

[DirtyBeech]

Flexjet has a 12 day schedule. its niiiiiiiiiiice

Yeah, it's what you have to work to maintain your 7/7 schedule after a vacation bid period. That or get your teeth kicked in with a 16 day line working 11 out of the remaining 15 days surrounding the vacation.

 

[DirtyBeech]

Seems Flex guys get their preferred air carrier more, at least the ones based at DFW. I always notice their pilots boarding in the Advantage Platinum group while I board with the lowly priority access Gold.

The DFW FO's seem to get and maintain Platinum status on AA easier than the captains. For whatever reason, Flex seems determined to get their captains on cheaper airlines, and they have more trouble maintaining platinum status.

 

[CL300Pilot]

Really? I am a captain and just hit platinum yet again.

The DFW FO's seem to get and maintain Platinum status on AA easier than the captains. For whatever reason, Flex seems determined to get their captains on cheaper airlines, and they have more trouble maintaining platinum status.

 

[DirtyBeech]

Good for you. Many DFW captains struggle to get it. Weird but true.

 

[B19 Flyer]

Better than avantairs new 14/14 schedule. Thanks, B19.

Thanks for what?