Msg ID: 2843675 Float Pilot V Line Pilot +2/-1     
Author:OT over 40 hours
5/8/2025 3:18:06 PM

Which states do HAA companies like Med Trans, PHI and Air Methods pay over time for hours worked over 40 hours in a work week? 

I'm trying to determine if the extra pay (due to OT paid for over 40 hours in a week), makes a line pilot more profitable that a float pilot position. 

I see Med Trans is hiring more float pilots (80 and counting). I wonder if that is to avoid the OT pay, as their float pilots are based in TX (and dont get OT over 40), even though they work in states where OT is paid to the line pilots.

Do any companies pay the OT for activities carried out over the 40 hours that do not involve patient transports. Ex:- commute, training etc.



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Msg ID: 2843676 Float Pilot V Line Pilot +3/-2     
Author:say wut
5/8/2025 4:03:15 PM

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you will only get 8 hours of ot per hitch. you will work 48 hours one week and 36 the next as your hitch will start on a wednesday or thursday. no, you will not get 44 hours of ot



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Msg ID: 2843683 Float Pilot V Line Pilot +3/-1     
Author:AMC doesn’t pay OT
5/8/2025 6:44:24 PM

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For schedule shifts.. Anything on your day off will be OT. No OT over 40 hours for scheduled shifts. Only OT for scheduled shifts is anything past your 12 hours. 



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Msg ID: 2843685 Float Pilot V Line Pilot +4/-3     
Author:wrong
5/8/2025 6:57:15 PM

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in states that require ot  for over 40, you get ot for over 40



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Msg ID: 2843693 Float Pilot V Line Pilot +4/-2     
Author:At what states are those?
5/9/2025 1:58:28 AM

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We operate under the RLA. Ain’t no OT over 40. Clinicians in certain states do. But no pilots I’m aware of. And I work in California, and it ain’t happening out here 



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Msg ID: 2844067 Float Pilot V Line Pilot +2/-1     
Author:In the Know
5/18/2025 3:21:05 AM

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If you are in Ca., then you get OT everyday. 1.5 after 8 hours, 2x after 12.

Ask AMC and Med Trans about how much they have paid in FLSA lawsuits.



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Msg ID: 2843697 Since RLA preempts State law, there is no such requirement (NT) +4/-1     
Author:not for a certificated air carrier
5/9/2025 7:04:59 AM

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Msg ID: 2843710 IOWs, companies that pay it do so voluntarily, & and if at the union CBA, (NT) +3/-1     
Author:they treat some diffently than others
5/9/2025 10:17:16 AM

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Msg ID: 2843706 Float Pilot V Line Pilot +3/-1     
Author:That’s
5/9/2025 9:57:14 AM

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the beginning to drilling down in each state via a labor lawyer.  You might be surprised the answers and how states may vary.



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Msg ID: 2843689 Float Pilot V Line Pilot +4/-1     
Author:Rvrrat
5/8/2025 8:56:03 PM

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none that im aware of.  Most all pay OT after 12 hours per shift.  We operate under the RLA and transportation rules so the traditional 40 hour work week does not apply.  



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