max hours/credit per month

[huronip]

I had 175 TFP last month with 65 hours of block. Only worked 13 days.

 

[redflyer65]

I think you'll find at most ALPA carriers there will be a cap written into their contract. CAL might be the only one that's different.

I like there being no cap. Work hard and make a ton of money if you want too.....or not. Leave it up to the pilot, not the union.

 

[densoo]

I think you'll find at most ALPA carriers there will be a cap written into their contract. CAL might be the only one that's different.

I like there being no cap. Work hard and make a ton of money if you want too.....or not. Leave it up to the pilot, not the union.

There is a cap of sorts at CAL, although it is cruel and perverse one, in sync with their management style. If you have more than 87.5 hours of pay--whether for block time, vacation, or training--you lose that pay if you take a sick call.

Let's say you've 95.5 hours of pay. You call in sick the first day of the month. Your pay for the month is now capped at 87.5. That's the cruel part.

Here's the perverse part. Now that you're flying 8 hours for free you figure you'll just drop 8 hours of flying later in the month because you don't want to work for free. Yup, if you do that your pay drops to 79.5.

Against the law to work for free? Only at Walmart. CAL pilots agreed to this. This is why so many pilots at CAL have "an allergy" and never a cold.

 

[Beetle007]

I think you'll find at most ALPA carriers there will be a cap written into their contract. CAL might be the only one that's different.

I like there being no cap. Work hard and make a ton of money if you want too.....or not. Leave it up to the pilot, not the union.

I think you are correct about some ALPA carriers but Spirit is ALPA and doesn't have a cap. A small group of pilots who are willing to fly whenever the company wants have often doubled or tripled their line value. I know one pilot who almost quadrupled his line value (he ended the month with over 330 hrs credit)

 

[Mike man]

not that we are a major...but the record at Spirit is just a tad over 230 hours of credit for a CA (or about $35,000 for the month). How she had 130+ of soft credit for the month is crazy.

 

[Beetle007]

My friend had over 300 at Spirit. He said he had 340 hrs but the company only paid him for 320 hrs. He didn't want to argue about it.