Originally Posted by
tsquare
THe answer to that question is certainly not me, but the bigger pays more crowd. I have offered my solution, but you ain't interested. Enjoy the downsizing "wave we get to ride" now. The only thing that could possibly change all this and make it moot is a big WB order that makes it all up in shear numbers.
Even if you could get past the near impossibility of how you would
realistically transition to your longevity based pay system, it ignores what I think would be a devastating impact on jobs. Specifically, it would incentivize the company to buy larger aircraft since we would have taken pay based on revenue production out of the equation. Further, it would make our smaller aircraft relatively more expensive to operate thus putting more pressure on outsourcing the bottom end. These two points add a compounding effect to job destruction.
With our current system, we are seeing a reduction in large aircraft which means pilots will be displaced to lower paying positions. I get that. But it's requiring more jobs. If I had to choose between higher pay for fewer jobs, or slightly lower pay for many more jobs...I choose the latter.
Carl