General Lee
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Uhhhhhh, $195 an hour (12th year Capt rate on 717 starting Jan 1st) is the lowest Capt rate at Delta (starting Jan 1st), and the smallest plane in the fleet. Some people fly the max, some people bid reserve and fly min. Throw in 4-5 weeks of vacation, training, and let's say 75 hours per month. At $195 an hour times 75 times 12 months, you'd get about $175K. Then throw in 16% of your W2 as a profit sharing bonus this year (probably more next year with lower oil prices), which would be $28K, and you'd make $203K. Let's say you flew 80 hours. At 80 hours you'd make $187,200, plus $30K for the 16% bonus, and you'd make about $217K. That's on the smallest plane with the lowest Capt rate (as of Jan 1st), flying 80 hours per month. Not bad.
And, the next contract is being discussed, and RA so far has never gone past the ammendable date. The last contract was for almost 20% raise for a 3 year contract. With $4 Billion in profits this year, and probably more next year due to lower oil, I think it's gonna be a good one .
There are plenty of FOs that make over $200K a year, and that's before the profit sharing bonus. If you stay senior in category, you can swap smaller trips for larger ones, fly trips with credit time that allows you to pick up more time and money, get greenslips (like fly one leg from ATL to JAX, layover 17 hours and one leg back to ATL. A total of 2 hours flying, paid at 10.5 hours (5:15 per day), then doubled for greenslip pay. That turn results in 21 hours of pay at $150 an hour on the 7ER). If you do a couple of those types of trips per month, you're not even close to the 100 hours in 28 days max, but you're paid 130 hours or more. Being a senior FO can pay a lot more than a reserve Capt.
Bye Bye----General Lee
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