You are almost correct, except the AE NC is who brought up the "apprentice scale", US Airways management though they had found gold because our guys were so stupid to believe that a B Scale for new hires would trend us towards Pinnacle.

For all Eagle pilots already on property:
· No changes to current contract for existing pilots
· If this deal were ratified by the pilots, Eagle pilots who later decline to flow to AA would have their pay rate frozen
· Pilots who have already declined to transfer to AA, will not have their payrate frozen and will remain under the current contract.
· Proposal contains a minimum fleet size guarantee for 8 years and that would be guaranteed by the mainline, which would include larger new aircraft
· Proposal contains increasing the minimum number of pilots per year that Eagle must allow to flow to AA by 25%

The cost savings USAirways is looking for to accomplish the above bullets would come from future new hire pilots. Future new hire pilots would:
· Work under reduced payrate and benefits compared to new hires under the current agreement
· All future new hires would be “hired” by AA and would be able to participate in the same flow as rest of Eagle pilots in seniority order

Do you really think that this scale would have been for new hires? Or do you think this would have been the benefits we all would have been working under. We put the camel's nose under the tent. We Eagle pilots are not the heroes, all we did was step away from the ledge that we put ourselves in.