Originally Posted by cslusarc

If I put on my shareholder's hat: I'd think that Delta+1 was a reasonable offer given the economic conditions today, but I think that full pay restoration would only be feasible if we returned to the economic conditions that were prevalent in the late 1990s (cheap reliable fuel, constant profits at decent levels yielding attractive ROIs). Unfortunately this is a different decade and passengers are paying fares near all time lows (in real dollars), the top network carriers on average as an industry aren't on track yet to produce significant profits that attracts long term investors and a classification as a blue chip company.

Wouldn't a "B" scale for new hires who are first placed on 99-seat jets be reasonable? Similarly would a "C" scale for those who start on 86-seat jets and a "D" scale for those who start on 76-seat jets where pay parity with the 12-year "A" scale rate is reached by the "B" scale in year 15, the "C" scale in year 18 and "D" scale in year 21?