Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
I remember specifically the MD-88 F/O 2nd year B-scale rate when I was hired in 1998. It was $65/hour. Adjusted for inflation from 1998 to 2011, that would be $88.23/hour. Current contract 2nd year MD-88 F/O rate? $78.14 (For those of you in Rio Linda/Herndon, that's buying power worse than B-scale.)
I get your point about the pay rate, but there wasn't a B-scale here when you got hired in 1998. We eliminated it 2 contracts prior for pay beginning September 1, 1992. Only the September '85-'87 hires got to spend the full 5 years on B-scale. We did introduce a 737 C-scale to compete with the wage rates at SWA in POS96, but that was for a fleet of 54 aircraft based in MCO.