You stay classy Linden Hillman

[slaquer5]

In april, I had 168 hours credit with 72 block hours. No sick calls, no vacation. Things are good around here right now. Back to the way it used to be before financial crisis. At my FO pay rate, that's just under 21,000$ for the month. Not bragging, just want people to know what is possible. Some are doing alot more than that.

Disclaimer: That is not my rear end in the avatar.

Bake, what the hell are you doing flying? SWA (we) need in at the GO hiring FAs

 

[Empennage]

From what your coworkers are telling me, that's not the case, and I like what I hear.

86 hours of TFP per month on 60-70 of block in the 17-18 days off range is just fine with me. If you had listened, you would realize I was talking about where I shoot for on OUR schedules, which is, on average, about 5 hours more credit than block on any given line, like every other airline out there. Your TFP system is unique, but it's the block hours that drives days off (assuming productive trips).

We're so short-staffed, no one has any extra days off to pick up our trips we drop into the trade board and we can't straight drop through FLiCA because there are never enough reserves (denied due to min coverage). It prohibits massaging your schedule to produce soft credit and will only get worse as we enter peak flying summer schedules.

Thanks everyone for the encouragement on schedules. Sounds really great, looking forward to it! :beer:

Short staffed? Yet there's still movement with sap 1 and sap 2.

Wait till you see how short staffed we are here real quick. I believe it will be ja nation.

FYI for any given day, there are only a few am and a few pm reserve guys in base. There is no trading down or dropping to reserves. There really is no trading down with elitt.

It's good but I do believe there will be an adjustment period. Most trips are very dense.

 

[Ty Webb]

You guys without "pull" in scheduling are going to "hurtin' for certain" once summer rolls around . . . . . Ty, of course, is the Jackie Treehorn of Scheduling's Malibu.

 

[MRW]

Been averaging 140-160TFP / month for over a year now. Still getting 16-17 days off a month with an average block of 70-80. Bottom 30% of FO seniority list. Tell me your future ex wives dont want some of that coin. $16-20K per month without even trying hard!

 

[scoreboardII]

Lear, I hear you, but over here, unless you're senior in base, you're not going to be able to drop or trade down from you're line. Like you, SWA is always understaffed. Except for the month of Feb.

The dynamic right now is because we are short manned, everyone who would take you're trip, is holding out for premium pay from a company assigned trip.

Take care.

 

[shagadelic]

The dynamic right now is because we are short manned, everyone who would take you're trip, is holding out for premium pay from a company assigned trip.

Tell me about it...I have two two-days in there that pay 16...in years (months) past, they'd have been gone in the first day. No one is touching my "garbage" now because the premium is so lucrative.

 

[Lear70]

Lear, I hear you, but over here, unless you're senior in base, you're not going to be able to drop or trade down from you're line. Like you, SWA is always understaffed. Except for the month of Feb.

The dynamic right now is because we are short manned, everyone who would take you're trip, is holding out for premium pay from a company assigned trip.

Take care.

I was jumpseating home last week and met one of your pilots, really nice guy, we started talking about how our international lines looked and what MCO lines looked like and he basically said the same thing you did. No one's taking any straight drops right now with all the JVA available.

Guess it will be similar to here in those months: bid a line that's best commutable, max days off, let the credit fall where it falls and just fly my line. At least the money will be better! It's all good...

 

[Ty Webb]

Tell me your future ex wives dont want some of that coin.

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

 

[Flying the Line]

Sorry Lear, very few if any at all, lines are commutable here at SWA.

 

[ILUVURBANMYERS]

Some lines are commutable. But I find myself trading around so much that I rarely if ever fly a trip on my original line.
There is a TON of premium flying right now till the end of summer-but its damn hard to get rid of anything. I had one 3 day go next month but it had back to back SAN on the harbor. I have two 2 days that have been in give away all month.(1 to tpa 2 back paying 15.8) Use to those would have gone in 10 minutes.
JA is now on line only. So if your trip ends on Thursday or Friday you better pack extra clothes.
#2 Captain in LAS has done over 220tfp the last 2 months. Granted she is working her as off but that is over $40k per month.

 

[texman]

Some lines are commutable. But I find myself trading around so much that I rarely if ever fly a trip on my original line.
There is a TON of premium flying right now till the end of summer-but its damn hard to get rid of anything. I had one 3 day go next month but it had back to back SAN on the harbor. I have two 2 days that have been in give away all month.(1 to tpa 2 back paying 15.8) Use to those would have gone in 10 minutes.
JA is now on line only. So if your trip ends on Thursday or Friday you better pack extra clothes.
#2 Captain in LAS has done over 220tfp the last 2 months. Granted she is working her as off but that is over $40k per month.

She is a sweet person to fly with. When I was new she was like "honey let me show how to land this bird". She makes it look easy. I guess if you been here for 29 years it looks easy. Did the math 40k is it.

 

[ASADFW7]

The first time the Airtran Mec president wrote to MVD of SWA you (at) all published the reply and had your circle jerk celebration of relative seniority is coming. Now the calculated word is that something brown is blowing back from the fan towards the Airtran group. Whatever word that comes out is not by accident. Expectations and opinion can be moved by either side. Reality versus fantasy is coming. SWA is not letting flightinfo decide corporate decision making.

 

[Lear70]

The first time the Airtran Mec president wrote to MVD of SWA you (at) all published the reply and had your circle jerk celebration of relative seniority is coming. Now the calculated word is that something brown is blowing back from the fan towards the Airtran group. Whatever word that comes out is not by accident. Expectations and opinion can be moved by either side. Reality versus fantasy is coming. SWA is not letting flightinfo decide corporate decision making.

What?

 

[Bob Dylan]

They will be lucky to get stapled now is what I'm hearing. Probably no chance of that even.

 

[Ty Webb]

They will be lucky to get stapled now is what I'm hearing. Probably no chance of that even.

Yawn... You need to come up with some new material, Milton.