I know I don't understand Airnet's pay system, and I'm pretty sure you don't understand FLX's. No one at FLX works 6 hours and get paid for 6, they'd be paid for at least 7.5, the minimum daily rate. What are 9th and 10th days? No one at FLX works any "overtime", as far as I understand the term. Your days off are off, the whole place shuts down over the weekend. There are no reserve pilots, everyone has a run.
I'll try to explain this.
Airnet pay is rig based. Basically you take flight time plus half your duty and add them together.
Ex. 4.5 hours of flying + 7 hours of duty = 8
Minimum rig is 10. Anything over 10 has a several multipliers to qualify as overtime.
An "Airnet week" is 4 days. Thus 8 days in a pay period. If your run is 5 days then you would have "9th and 10th" days added to your paycheck at at a overtime multiplier.
9th and 10th day are a significant amount, it really adds up.
We have floaters which cover for sick time and vacations and training. Each pilot receives at least 2 weeks vacation.
Thanks to Flight Express now being the model of being lean and mean our reserve staffing is being cut down. Our vacation time I would imagine is next on the chopping block.
Airnet was a GREAT 135 freight company. They exceeded many with benefits such as 401k, vacation time, medical, and jumpseat access that others only dream about.
Bayside looks at all of this as excess and wants us "lean and mean" like Flight Express.
If this thread were up a few forums in the Airline Pilot section we would be pushing to deny FLX guys a ride to work and all that nonsense because they aren't "jacking the house" but they are taking the jobs.
We haven't gotten to that point but I will say it's worth mention that even though Airnet pilots are being relatively civil about FLX pilots gaining employment while we are furloughing, it's not exactly a good thing "for the industry"....whatever the #### that means.