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actually, planes on the ground, via padding, were only there to "justify" the padded schedule, guaranteeing the "bonus".

I think being at or near the bottom of the DOT O/T rankings month after month were used as justification for the padding, which resulted in more of the planes spending more time on the ground.

As for the bonuses for the execs, they're based on financial performance, not operational performance.

Jim
 
I seem to recall that when they changed the executive compensation plan there was a DOT stat/OTP performance clause in the bonus plan. I also recall the some pretty specific performance objectives.

I could be wrong.

Not wrong Bob....8-K filing on 03APR08 (period March 28, 2008) spells it out....over 100% bonus to be average - middle of the pack out of 12 airlines.
 
There are 2 incentive plans that pay cash bonuses - the incentive compensation plan and the long-term incentive plan.

The annual incentive plan is weighted 50% to financial performance goals and 50% to operational goals (O/T and baggage). This incentive plan could pay Parker as much as 100% of base salary.

The long-term incentive plan is entirely total stockholder return related - this is the one that would pay Parker 125% of base pay for middle of the pack performance and up to 200% of base pay maximum.

So Parker, for example, would get no more than 50% of base salary for meeting O/T and baggage goals but could get up to 300% of base salary for meeting financial and total stockholder return goals.

In other words, no more than 17% of Parker's potential "bonus" could come from O/T and baggage performance. The rest would come from financial and stock performance.

Jim

ps added: poor choice of words in that last paragraph. Potentially the only bonus paid could be for the operational measures, meaning that those would represent 100% of the bonus Parker receives but only 17% of the maximum he could have received had all goals been met.
 
If the CEO can manipulate "times" to earn his way out of line bonus, then the pilots should be able to do something similar. Just sayin'.
Our pilots? Riiiight. They couldn't even pull off that one day sick out. Don't count on it.... :lol:
 

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