Originally Posted by
seafeye
It's a B scale because you have a 18 year CA making 18 year wages and everyone below year 12 capping out. You have two pilots making different pay. The only way to eliminate the discrepancy is to make 12 year CA pay just pennies less than 18.
The senior pilots have nothing to lose. Nothing. The junior ones do. Senior pilots have their choice of vacation, lines, holidays, don't' lose a penny in this TA. Remember the contract back in 2002? Where the captains got a $5/hr raise and the f/o's $.50? History repeats itself.
That's not the definition of a b scale..... It's not a great move by AA but its by no means a b scale. Ask the former UAL guys what a b scale is.... It's not this.