Originally Posted by
intrepidcv11
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.
You are right. We should have just put everything at Guppy pay and then said "Guppy pilots make the same as a 747 guy so therefore they are all paid at the 747 pay rate" (Which is of course stupid)
The point is that the 787 and 767-400 are basically similar size aircraft. A 747 is twice as large and should have paid much more!!!
But the CAL NC insisted that that NOT HAPPEN because they felt it would look like United brought a premium aircraft to the merger (which it did) and get an advantage in SLI. (Which it STILL DID)