I still haven't seen T's numbers on exactly how LBP would work. I posted a theoretical approach to LBP a few month ago (which he appeared to agree with) that without increasing the current cost of the contract, that the LBP contract would pay every 12 year captian $215 an hour. Not exactly the windfall I think some are expecting.

The fact is for the most part, the larger the aircraft the more it can "afford" to pay. As an example, A 717 and a 757 take of from ATL to JFK.. The 757 will have a much lower pilot casm. (Or just about any other metric than casm you want to use) So if anything, the 757 could actually pay more than it does now and still keep their casm in line with the smaller jets, but on a system wide basis, it keeps our casm in line.

I guess I just don't see how (again assuming current contract costs, increasing it is a whole different topic) that LBP is going to be this great deal as a whole for the pilot group.

Of course it may be the holy grail as well, but I would love for one of the people (T?) to tell me exactly how it would work.

What would be the current 12 year captain and FO rate? (Current contract cost)

If the company started trading 757's for 777's, are we still happy with LBP? (Please be consistent with your argument)