Originally Posted by
seafeye
+1
Why should the #1 guy/girl get everything while the bottom person gets nothing? And only because the #1 person was there first. It needs to be leveled out a bit. Squash the wages, why shouldn't a 5 year Capt make the same as a 10 year one? For the reward of being with a company for 10 years then that person gets more vacation/choice of schedules etc.... They shouldn't get everything plus 40% more pay. imo
+2. But Seniority would still count for bidding schedules, vacation, upgrade, etc. There's no other way to do that which is fair...the only alternative is giving the goodies to whoever spends the most time in office kissing the CP's ass. That's the way it used to work waaaay back in the day, and that's why we got a seniority system in the first place.
But the real trick is implementing this...
a) The company will never agree unless it's cost neutral.
b) The senior pilots will never agree unless their financial status is preserved, ie we are not going to raise pay for the bottom of the list by lowering pay at the top (the middle guys would be least affected).
a) and b) are mutually exclusive...in order to raise pay at the bottom AND preserve the high pay at the top (which those guys earned the hard way, over decades) the company will have to eat it for 10-20 years.