Timing Out ?

[LuvMyJob]

Just looking for some info to see how different airlines handle pilots who hit their 1,000 before the end of the year.

I assume that if one hits 1,000 hours by say the end of November, they would draw their salary for the month of December and not have to use their own vacation or personal time. Is this correct at most airlines or am I wrong?

Thanks!

 

[Rogue5]

From what I understand at SkyWest, if you hit 1,000 hours you're done. That is, you get the rest of the year off without pay.

This may sound bad at first BUT you have essentially earned all the money it is possible to earn in a given year in less than a calendar year's time and now no longer have to worry about bidding to get XMas or New Year's off. Sounds good to me.

 

[FlyboyPhil]

timing out

true about the 'done' when you hit 1000 FLIGHT HOURS... but one can still earn more CREDIT HOURS.. so if one wanted to make the max money they could leave a few hours and bid reserve, call last and get more credit hours=more pay
depends on what you value more.. a month off, or 75 hours of reserve guarantee.. that month off sounds really good though...

 

[rjcap]

To average 91 flight hours per month is pretty difficult considering there are many restrictions in place to prevent picking up trips that will exceed weekly and monthly limits. If you are senior then this task is possible. If your junior forget it.

 

[wil]

With the new scheduling software that is used it would be difficult. The company will do all it can to maximize your potential usage. They don't want a bunch of employees globetrotting on their bene's with a month or two off. Also, with a good reserve system you could have the same amount of time off with more pay!

 

[LearLove]

...but it can be done

Back in the good old days several guys at my company were doin it. I managed to do it in 2000. I hit 1000 on 17th of Dec and had off from the 17th to the 6th of Jan 2001. That month I was blocked for something like 89 hours so thats what they paid me.

That same year a guy from my new hire class timed out at the end of Nov. and had like 7 hours left so for Dec. they gave him off all month except the 25th which they kindly threw in a 5 hour out-and-back. He kindly returned the favor with a sick call. He was paid the 75 hour gar. for the month.

My November 2003 sked. has me at 897 hour by the end of Nov.

 

[CF34-3B1]

From what I understand at SkyWest, if you hit 1,000 hours you're done. That is, you get the rest of the year off without pay.

This may sound bad at first BUT you have essentially earned all the money it is possible to earn in a given year in less than a calendar year's time and now no longer have to worry about bidding to get XMas or New Year's off. Sounds good to me.

WITHOUT PAY???? Sounds like Mesa.

I timed out in Dec 99. Flew what I was legal for (10 or 12 hours) and got a guarantee check.

So if I had timed out at SKY I'd have gotten paid for only what I flew?

 

[CWASaab]

From what I understand at SkyWest, if you hit 1,000 hours you're done. That is, you get the rest of the year off without pay.



Not get paid? Yikes, that is bad. My opinon is that you should be rewarded for giving 100% to the company, hell you should get a bonus, Lord knows you don't have a life.

I, along with several other pilots at my airline, timed out in '99. I was a fairly senior FO at the time. I spent the last two weeks of the year in Hawai'i, gettin' paid my guarantee.

Since then the company has caught on, and our union agreed to an LOA that allows the company to designate 'high time pilots'. I think we got something in return, can't remember what though.

Anyway, with the LOA, basically if come October your block time for the year divided by the number of completed months, multiplied by 12 is more than 1000, the company can start pulling trips to keep you from timing out. They reevaluate every month.

Trip guarantee applies, so you are pay protected, but no more Christmas in Hawai'i on the company. I think it kinda sucks, but then again since I upgraded I have only come close in 2001, that was only up until Sept.

Like I said, I think the company should have given me a bonus, not devised a way to prevent this from happening. Guess that proves I am a pilot not management.