Originally Posted by
Grumble
How do the powers that be decide on what the pay rate for a certain airplane should be? If going off seat count the 787-8 should be paying the same as the 762 and 763, or vice versa. Same for the 739 and 752.
There's no real formula. It's up to the discretion of the NC and ultimately MEC. Generally, weight supersedes seats because seats are variable (extreme case, imagine if we had WB freighters... we wouldn't accept SNB pay for them). In the present era, mission (long haul vs. domestic), common types (757/767), and evaluating future replacement aircraft are additional factors.