max hours/credit per month

[hoover84]

Information needed on what your max contractual credit/hour cap is per month.
I’m looking for legacy and majors only…thank you for your help…

 

[shootr]

Southwest - no contractual limits (only limited by FARs and your own imagination)

 

[taxicabdriver]

same at cal

 

[Green Banana]

Work till you die $luts!

 

[chppr5]

Work till you die $luts!

Well said.

 

[zasca]

Isn't usair the only one with a cap???

 

[CesnaCaptn]

Isn't usair the only one with a cap???

I would actually say that most legacies have a monthly max that lines can be built to. AFIK, AA is the most restrictive.

At Alaska, except for a flex month, lines can't be built over 85. From there, pilots can trade with open time up/down to 75/90. They can pick up or give away pilot-to-pilot from 0-100. Training and vacation time can work toward bringing you up to 75, but doesn't count toward your 90 hour max. It's conceivable that you could fly 90 and add in 20-30 hours of training/vacation pay.

 

[densoo]

Isn't usair the only one with a cap???

I think UAL is capped at 87 hours of pay.

 

[Whaler]

I heard the record at SWA is 270 trips for one month flown by a Capt (1 Trip = 186.06), unsure how many hours he flew to get that...

 

[Cruncher]

Whaler, "he" may be a "she." A lot of DHs, Rigs, short call outs (not a reserve, but a FCFS Premium stuff), ... all time-and-a-half or double time. It's a lot of work, but the most senior roll that way in the summer months. Last summer, almost 500 trips in 2 months.

Most humans can live on that salary for an entire year. Redonkulous really, but absolutely no life, and not worth it IMO. Your warm time is limited. However, the person I quoted above takes it easy the rest of the year, or gives most stuff away and just hangs around waiting for the phone to ring, which it does, consistently.

It helps immensely to live in base. Different jobs really.

PS There was a senior married couple a few years back. They averaged 150 - 180 / month each! Do the math on 300 trips / month. Hard to make sense of magnitude.

 

[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.