Originally Posted by tsquare

The 747/777/330/765 make up 12% of the fleet.. period. Management's decision to buy those airplanes, or NOT buy those airplanes, which they aren't... and you have been here long enough to know that they ain't gonna buy any more 747s. What airplane has management bought lately? 737-900. A replacement to the 757 and 767. Will it pay as much as the aircraft they are replacing? I'll let you decide for yourself on that one. Personally, I doubt it.. So we.. once again.. take pay cut based on a management decision. Why do we handcuff ourselves to that contract after contract? I would prefer longevity based pay based on how long you have been here, but that is too hard a sell, so I concede to banding because it gives some guys a little comfort with the whole productivity thing.. (that is a myth, because yet again.. WE do not buy airplanes, management does.) Oh, I would leave the 757 in the widebody band, but since they are going away, it really wouldn't matter...

What I would LOVE is for somebody to convince me that productivity is a valid reason for staying away from banded pay. However, that logic cannot say anything about faster more people more cargo, because as I said before, management makes the purchasing decisions. It would be up to us to make us expensive enough so that they would want economy of scale. Bottom line for me is.. I push throttles. Pay me for doing so. While I love the 76, I don't really care what the airplane is as long as I am getting paid to fly it.