Originally Posted by
Benwarren
Not sure what your problem with pay banding is. I would much rather have several aircraft pay wide body pay than have one pay some amount that creates a ton of commuters.
747 is a premuim aircraft. It should pay more. 777 as well. Lowering that pay to accomodate the 767-400 was a stupid idea. They only pay the same because the CAL NC insisted on it because they were afraid UAL would use it as a status and category advantage.
Didn't matter. UAL got the advantage still since 747 and 777 were counted as Jumbo by the arbitrators per the UAL MC proposal, and the 767-400 was put into mid-body with the UAL 757-200s.
So it didn't work, and now we all get to fly a 747 or 777 for less than we could have been paid.
Its a good thing the remnants of the CAL ALPA structure are in the history books.