Originally Posted by
hunterboy
How do the pilots in US and other airlines that use seniority rostering systems manage to recruit pilots?
Our pay system is totally unlike the (more or less) flat salary that you'd get at BA. That leads to different work rules. Let's say I'm on a narrowbody, and have 4 trips this month, each 4 days long. If staffing permits, I can drop any of those trips. With each dropped trip, my pay goes down by 25%. If I'd still like to make that money, I can find other higher value trips so that my pay is restored.
Depending on a number of factors (seniority being paramount among them), you can end the month with no pay credit, or up to triple your monthly guarantee. Even within a fleet, there's significant variation in the pay and time off that each pilot gets, which will depend on his/her goals for the month.