W2's

[IslandDriver]

5 yr WN FO. 148K plus per diem, 401k match, etc. Jr commuter. Only work assigned never pick up. Reserve through August. Line Sept -Dec. 15 days off on reserve months. 17 to 18 on line months.

 

[DougCorp-9]

12 YR Airtran Capt. 209K plus per diem. 4 or 5 premium trips. Average 16 days off.
785 Block.

 

[CLARKGRSWOLD]

Miami Real Estate agent.

Home every night.
100k
No open time, off holidays

 

[labbats]

Miami Real Estate agent.

Home every night.
100k
No open time, off holidays

How about weekends?

Still think about work when you're at a ball game?

Have to deal with wishy washy customers?

 

[jonjuan]

How about weekends?

Still think about work when you're at a ball game?

Have to deal with wishy washy customers?

Yep-weekends on call and at home showings. Sounds like fun.

 

[intooclose]

7 year Airtran FO
113K
808 block
7K per diem 12K in 401k

I worked way too hard to get it to 113K. I can't wait to get to Southwest. I had only 11 days off in December with some premium.

 

[nwaf16dude]

1800? Wow, you guys really didn't get treated that well. Sorry to hear that.

I obviously wasn't happy about the SLI, but I think it was done about as fairly as possible. It's water under the bridge now, and GL and I, and everybody else at DAL are making a lot more money than we would be if the merger hadn't happened. I'll console myself with a nice fat profit sharing check next month.

 

[Hair-on-Fire]

9 year JetBlue 320 FO
170K
965 block
Live local. Work a lot. Will get nowhere close in 2014 with the loss of premium pay.

 

[nonstop]

Delta Air Lines 6 year A320 FO

Full year flight pay: 114k
Profit sharing from 2012: 6k
Company 401k contribution: 17k
On time bonus pay: 1k
It's hard to spend less than my per diem so I don't count it.
Grand total: 138k

 

[Newpilot2b]

6 year SWA FO
152 K
Does not include 401K, profit sharing, or per diem

 

[jayme]

6 year VA CA
157K
Does not include per diem or 401K matches.
Gone 13 days a month.
Blocked 880.

Per diem was almost 5K.
Company added 8K to 401K.

 

[cole]

6-7year Swa Fo
Commuter
Flew 780 hours
192k not including per diem or 401k match
17.5k 401k match
Profit sharing?

 

[jp1030]

9 year SWA F/O $221k (Lots of premium) I commute

 

[Speed]

DougCorp-9 -- You gotta live it before you will believe it

At your TFP rate of 125.30 you would have to have averaged 136 TFP per month. If you had 12.5 days of work per month it would mean you averaged 10.92 TFP per day. I'm gonna have to call BS on that one. Sorry.

Kinda like the Healthcare bill where Congress had to pass it so we could see what was in it. You gotta get over to the SWA side, learn how to maximize our Trip Trade Give-A-Way, ELITT, and Open Time systems and then you'll understand. I'm not in a "cartel", my board is never blocked, I always play by the rules, and yes the numbers I gave were absolutely true. Like previously mentioned, using SWAPTIMIZER with 3 weeks of vacation, your training month pull, and a couple sick trips coupled by lots of premium make it quite easy to hit those numbers. I don't consider myself to be a "player"?but a guy who does optimize the schedule every month. The summer months really help the average where I'm banging out 160-180+ tfp per month. Flying premium while on vacation really pumps the numbers up. The "players" are averaging 160-180 tfp each and every month and flying 18-20 days a month to do that. My QOL and time with family are too important to jump into that arena. You do have to have some tolerance for risk to give away all or most of your trips every month and have the faith you'll be able to rebuild your schedule with Open and Premium time trips around the family schedule.

If that stresses you out?just fly your line, pick up a turn here and there and be content making a buck fifty. I'm just grateful we have the flexibility to rearrange our schedule and surge a few months if mama needs a knew pair of shoes?or new shoe closet for the 200 pair she already owns

I do have one footnote to add: the company's 401K match last year was more than my 17,500 match?they matched some make-up-contributions from a previous year while I was drilling for military duty.

Cheers and Welcome to the Team!
Speed

 

[Downwind]

2 YR EMS King Air 90 Captain
63 hours block
$92.5K
$2.5K in education reimbursement
$1K in HSA
Not much in other benefits
3% 401k match
Average 18 days/month