Originally Posted by AndyDRHuddleston
Thanks for the reply TR4A, that equates to an awfully low monthly wage, and one that I for sure could not live on.
Are those minimums normally exceeded by far?
Andy
Andy
The minimums are contractual. That's what the minimum hours paid for the month. If for some reason your line was paying below the minimum you would still get the minimum. The low hours might be an over staffing problem. Some airlines unions have a Maximum hours paid for the month say 80 or 85. The reason for that is the company should hire more pilots. I worked for a company that had 80 hours max. If you ended up over flying a little, say 82 hours, 2 hours would go into you flight bank. You could then draw from the bank in a month when you total was lower. FAR's are 100/month and 1000/year.
I fly for an union airline that uses that FAR maximums for the limits.