Originally Posted by
CVG767A
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Pay banding is great for guys at the junior end of the band (i.e. a junior 767 captain-- nudge, nudge). They get a pay raise, which comes at the expense of the guys at the top of the pay band, who would get a smaller raise.
Barring a pay raise, the 747/777/330/765 guys would actually need to take a pay cut to bump up the pay of the 757/767 guys.
Bad idea.
I think under the right circumstances it can work...i.e. all the pilots in a certain "band" are at the top pay scale. If we as pilots can agree what that rate should be, and for bargaining purposes it can shown that such costs are offset by less training costs (not always necessary to move up in equipment for pay purposes).
Of course one of the problems with this model being that there will always be pilots on the bigger equipment complaining that they are underpaid (as we have seen voiced here)