I am not sure how a B scale would work, specially a B scale for new hires who account for so little already. How will American Eagle compete with other regionals when we have a B Scale unless our upgrade times are much lower than everyone else and that is highly unlikely because you have many guys at Eagle like RJ who will ride this puppy to the ground or retirement.

The MEC has over the last few years given away stuff that affects the junior pilots the most in exchange for keeping the senior guys happy.

Company says we need this much from the captains as they are to expensive, the union says we'll give you that much but spread it around and the company says yes just to turn around and say we need this much more because the senior pilots cost to much and the union says we'll spread it around and this goes on and on. This is how negotiations have gone the last few years. This happened on the BK TA and this is what is happening today. But a B scale is not really going to work unless it has some guarantee at American and I am not talking about just an interview or 35% of classes with 3k guys ahead of you. I think this is all a push to get PBS passed as well as some items the company is not happy with in the contract.