Having read 't'other thread,' why is the pay structure all so complicated? It must take a battalion of accounts staff to sort it all out each month. Why cannot they have:
Salary according to position and seniority
Overtime
Allowances paid in cash at HOTAC check-in
Any anomalies
Er...that's it. Seemed to work in my old company.
It's a hangover from the historical approach of throwing money at crew to make BASSA go away. I'm sure hundreds of thousands could be saved in administration costs by replacing the current system of box payments, destination payments, one down payments etc with a simple hourly rate. It would mean crew would have more consistent earnings every month. You could say it is a "win win". But it would mean that those in the know would no longer be able to play the system.