August has been a pretty good month. Our collective bargaining agreement provides reserve and regular pilots with a minimum 75 hours of pay, even if we are only scheduled to fly say 30 or 40 hours of block flying a month. Throw in the odd deadhead, minimum daily credit, trip and duty rigs, block or better, and even those 30-40 hour block trips can yield a pilot with more than 75 hours of credit towards pay.
This month happens to be one of those months with me. Except that right now if I only flew the rest of my scheduled assignments, I would have 76 hours of block with 83 hours of pay credit (for deadheads, block or better). Now considering I'm a reserve pilot we have a nice stipulation in our countract that benefits us reserve pilots greatly.
In the event that a reserve pilots flies more than 75 hours of block they are then entitled to the minimum daily guarantee for any reserve days that the reserve pilot did not have an assignment. In essence, it's a plus for the reserve pilot as they've been working their ass off and the company failed to build a line to provide to a regular pilot considering that the reserve pilot has essentially flown a line the whole month without really being rewarded one.
In the event my company does not provide me any further flying beyond what is scheduled for the rest of the month that leaves me with 7 days of reserve availability that I did not fly. That is 7 days of 3.75 hours of pay for being available for an assignment. That is then 26.25 hours of additional pay that I'll receive for this month. Add that 26.25 hours of additional pay to my credit for the month of flying and that takes me to close to 112 hours of pay for this month.
Impressive - and I'll gladly take it.
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