The following is from an earlier post regarding captain's pay:
The pay rates only go through the first five years right now. they are:
first year.........$98.00
second year....$104.00
third year........$113.00
fourth year......$120.00
fifth year.........$127.00
add $10.00 per hour to the above for any time flown above 70 hours per month which is pretty easy to do with the present contracts and certain pairings. Not so easy to do on other pairings.
Originally Posted by Roadtrip
I might be interested in Focus. A few questions:
1. Does Focus have jumpseat agreements with the pax airlines?
2. What is Captain's pay?
3. What's the guarantee?
3. What is the normal schedule . . . 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off?
4. Are they going to be expanding soon?
Focus does have a jumpseat coordinator who is continually working to secure agreements with all the major airlines. We have jumpseats with other cargo carriers and are working, although it's slow, to secure seats with the major carriers.
The guarantee is 60 hours per month for a two month bid period. That's 120 hours in within the two months. Anything over the 120 is paid at normal rate plus anything over 140 is paid at what's being called an aux rate. Basically at a $10.00 override. (round numbers) There is a 3.16 hour daily trip pay and 3.5 hour trip pay for days on reserve or days off. Pay is at the highest number of hours....flight pay or trip pay. Flight time is paid at the scheduled (flight plan scheduled time) flight time. It's not the best system and there has been talk of revisiting the pay scale...nothing as of yet.
Days on duty are 19 on ( which includes travel) and 12 off...supposedly guaranteed. As of now that can be give or take a few days either way (mostly give). Depending upon which schedule or pairing you are on. Those extra days are paid at the 3.5 hour daily rate.
Focus is expanding. The plan is to secure up to 4 more aircraft in the year 2006. Aircraft number 4 is due to be delivered withing the next two months. Resumes continue to flow in and a hiring pool has been established. Classes are slated to be started every two months for the remainder of 2006. It was to be every month but due to a slowdown of aircraft delivery, the classes will be doubled up and only start every two months....
Hope this helps. It's not perfect, but not terrible...hopefully it will get better. I do see some signs of improvement in all areas.