Originally Posted by
N965VJ
Also, retirement payouts can be connected to the average time flown in the final years of service, so a senior mama that cruised along doing the minimum of 40 hours a month would be compelled to do something like 105/115 hours a month to maximize the payout.
"Compelled to"? Hardly. That's called "spiking" and it's the reason a lot of public pension plans are in trouble. I'm surprised the safety rules allow them to fly that much, when you consider that it's flight hours only and they're not compensated for all the time they spend waiting for hotel shuttles, checking into hotels, going through TSA lines, and a lot of the hurry-up-and-wait that comes with traveling.