Originally Posted by
pilot64golfer
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.
So UAL guys that are paid 'premium' for the 767-400 will not benefit? Should we have ratcheted down the 787 as well? Doesn't look very 'premium' to me.
Btw our WB rates differ little from DAL's WB rates when you adjust for the budget year we gave Jeffery. Any attempt to obtain higher WB rates would have taken money from elsewhere. One piece of UAL culture I plan to fight is the tendency (esp over the last decade) to screw the narrowbody guys in order to shield the WB 'premium' types as much as possible.