Airlines and benefits

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I think that's the first time I've heard of an airline charging its own people. Maybe it's more common than I thought, though.

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It's the norm. Just about every airline service charges their employees to fly by distance & class of service. SWA is the exception. The bennies there are very good. Unless you have worked for another airline, it's often hard to appreciate how generous they are.
 
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For those of you that work (or have worked) for an airline, I was kind of curious what kind of benefits you receive, i.e. medical/dental, paid sick and vacation days, and anything else. I would be curious to hear from anyone, but especially those that work for regional airlines.

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We have pretty good benefits. A small percentage is taken out of my paycheck each cycle for some benefits, but it is worth it. Right now we have a PPO/POS medical plan, PPO dental, vision service plan, long and short term disability. Our sick time and personal time is in hours and not days now. We are credited 12 hrs each year for sick and 12 hrs each year for personal time. This means you use the time to cover the hours you are scheduled to fly (flight, not duty, time). For vacation, we start with 7 days a year, then move up to 14 after 2 years. You are credited 2.8 hrs per vacation day towards your bid in your vacation month. We bid for vacations for the following year in the October of the previous year, which means our 2004 vacations were bid for in October 2003. You can swap vacations, or switch vacations to a week which is open if you'd like after the bid is out.

I'd have to dig out my benefits package, but we get quite a bit of stuff, including the medical/dental/vision, 401(k) (which we have a 50% company match up to 10% of pay), disability, sick/personal time, vacation, travel, cell phone discounts with Sprint, uniform allowance, housing allowance in training, etc.
 
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USS Constellation (CV-64)

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USS Ranger (CV-61).....I got off after the final cruise and just before decom. Carriers are the best.

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I was wondering because I just came off the USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 in 2002.
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I worked for DL in Frankfurt. I think my benefits were a little better than those who worked for DL in the States. Si it differs based on where you work (country). My flight benefits were taxable under German law. I did fly free, but was taxed by the Germans based on mileage. I think I paid about $.09 cents per mile to fly stand-by.
 
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Our sick time and personal time is in hours and not days now. We are credited 12 hrs each year for sick and 12 hrs each year for personal time. This means you use the time to cover the hours you are scheduled to fly (flight, not duty, time).

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Ouch! That doesn't seem like much.
 
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