Originally Posted by
NuGuy
The other problem with pay banding is the decreased training cycles, which means fewer pilots.
Make sure you do the math on this REALLY carefully. You might like the idea of pay banding, but it could delay your upgrade several years or drop you into the next lowest "band" because of the increased efficiency.
Nu
I will not argue the fact that it may increase the number of training cycles but your math on the number of pilot simply isn't supported by the data. If you compare the published data on pilots per aircraft for an airline like DAL that does not have pay banding to CAL that does, you find it is much more dependent on the type of flying being done. CAL had more pilots per aircraft than DAL. United roughly the same.