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TFP is based on miles, I think 1 TFP equals distance between DAL-HOU, which then is translated to time. Time starts at pushback, stops at setting brakes at jetway. Overide does not start until we are 12 minutes over scheduled flight time, so if we push on time but get in 10 late, nothing extra, 13 late we get 1/10hr overfly.Are your TFPs calculated from wheels up to wheels down?
How are the block overrides calculated?
Also -- always been curious -- why the super fast taxi's? Is there a metric this helps achieve. Have heard something about it being in the contract -- any truth to this?
Other, more senior SWA guys are free to correct me if I'm wrong, but TFPs are NOT converted to hours until the actual pay stub, where they don't have a column for "Trips For Pay" and just label them "Hours" for simplicity (I'm disregarding charter pay in this discussion).
Some airplanes (and companies) I've worked on (or for) want to preserve expensive brake pads, but I guess SWA has decided it's more cost effective to get better aircraft utilization. And, we actually have a published speed limit during taxi for performance (brake cooling) reasons.