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Double occupancy IROP hotels?? Lmao that will make for some interesting water cooler stories.


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JetDoc said:
It's official, first year FO pay to $35.81 and 4 commuter hotels a month. Also IROP hotels. Check your email.
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It says effective 11/1/15 on the pay, how is that gonna work? hmm...

good news from some hard working folks behind the scenes, well done!
 
Ok so the question is this...which makes more sense, taking the ten dollar pay raise and losing the bonus or taking the bonus and staying at current pay for the remainder of the year. I did the math and keeping the bonus will pay me about $600 more pro rated for the rest of my freshman year.

This is all PRE TAX money, however. I'm really not how taxes would effect my math. Right now I am kind of thinking that taking the raise would make more sense from a practical budgeting sense. Just not sure.

Hmm, you know, after posting this I started thinking...the math I did was just based on a 75 hour month. I'm probably not going to average 75 hours a month for the next 8 months. That sweetens the deal a bit for opting out of the bonus.
 
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I have always wondered why Airlines did not cover commuter hotels, especially ones that based you in hight COL areas with first year pay <25. This to me is huge, already dealing with inflation in Portland. Anything under 1000 a month is rare here now, so having to pay another 300-500 a month for a crash pad crushes the wallet. One quedtion is, if you commute to reserve is the "4" hotels enough to cover? Or will each individual night add up while on reserve with no assignment?
 
JDean3204 said:
I have always wondered why Airlines did not cover commuter hotels, especially ones that based you in hight COL areas with first year pay <25. This to me is huge, already dealing with inflation in Portland. Anything under 1000 a month is rare here now, so having to pay another 300-500 a month for a crash pad crushes the wallet. One quedtion is, if you commute to reserve is the "4" hotels enough to cover? Or will each individual night add up while on reserve with no assignment?
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Simple answer is money. FFD airlines already have some pretty tight profit margins and making it worse have little say in those said margins. Really the only thing a regional can do to increase profits is to cut labor expenses. So why would they pay for a hotel when the current paradigm has included everyone just sucking it up and paying for a crash pad?

It won't be enough to cover a reserve pilot. I had a build of line with only a few days this month. I would have well exceeded my four hotel rooms. Hell, being a junior line holder with a not great commute and I am certain 4 rooms a month won't cover it for me. Six would be much more comfortable.

Either way this is still huge and I can probably make it work. Not easily, but we'll see.
 
poser765 said:
Simple answer is money. FFD airlines already have some pretty tight profit margins and making it worse have little say in those said margins. Really the only thing a regional can do to increase profits is to cut labor expenses. So why would they pay for a hotel when the current paradigm has included everyone just sucking it up and paying for a crash pad?

It won't be enough to cover a reserve pilot. I had a build of line with only a few days this month. I would have well exceeded my four hotel rooms. Hell, being a junior line holder with a not great commute and I am certain 4 rooms a month won't cover it for me. Six would be much more comfortable.

Either way this is still huge and I can probably make it work. Not easily, but we'll see.
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So if 6 covered it the maybe instead of paying for a crash pad, paying for a hotel a few nights a month is cheaper?... Just really curious as my time to start applying to the regional game is right around the corner :)
 
JDean3204 said:
So if 6 covered it the maybe instead of paying for a crash pad, paying for a hotel a few nights a month is cheaper?... Just really curious as my time to start applying to the regional game is right around the corner :)
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That depends on a lot of things. Where you are based. How cheap you can get a room. My crashpad in LA is pretty expensive, but then again so are hotel rooms. Also that number of six is just a wild guess. It could be a more than that...or less. It's hard to predict how many nights you are going to have to spend in base, even with a line. For a long time at my previous carrier I was a line holder and kept the crashpad. Some months I used it a lot and others I never saw it.
 
Priceline, Priceline, Priceline. I have never paid more than 100 bucks when I knew I was gonna need a room in L.A. Reserve sadly is another story.
 
I, along with my classmates, ran all the numbers and if you've been at the company more than a couple months the bonus is better than the new pay. I am not saying I don't appreciate the effort that went into getting the raise, however the bonus just wins over the new pay unless you just started.

Even if you had critical pay of 10 hours each month for 8 months, 85 hours of work total each month at the new pay rate...you'd still be better with the bonus by a few hundred dollars.

Tax wise, you'll initially pay it at a higher rate, but then you would get back money or pay less at the end of the year.
 
piperpainter said:
I, along with my classmates, ran all the numbers and if you've been at the company more than a couple months the bonus is better than the new pay. I am not saying I don't appreciate the effort that went into getting the raise, however the bonus just wins over the new pay unless you just started.

Even if you had critical pay of 10 hours each month for 8 months, 85 hours of work total each month at the new pay rate...you'd still be better with the bonus by a few hundred dollars.

Tax wise, you'll initially pay it at a higher rate, but then you would get back money or pay less at the end of the year.
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How does the bonus money work in relation to your 401k contributions?
 
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