Originally Posted by
Scott Stoops
Tell me why does the 747 at 875k pounds pay the same as a 787 at 550k pounds. Yet the 320 pays more than the 319 with a weight differential of less than 8k pounds. Pay banding as it stands in this contract was gamesmanship to influence the sli. It failed and we are all worse for it. I still voted yes so I am as much to blame as...
If we are really going to endorse pay banding the lets go single aisle and dual aisle. Considering the 767-3 has 5 less seats than the 787-8, it should be banded with dual aisle airplanes. Narrow body and wide body.
I know the answer. It was feared that LUA would ask for 4 categories for S&C. 747, 777, 767/757, narrowbody. So we wanted to make sure that we were on equal par and wanted as many airplanes as possible in the highest band. So 767-400, 787 (LUA didn't have any) pay the same as 777 and we weren't going to allow the 747 to pay more than the 777 and then low and behold in the SLI find out because its "premium" end up with 400 of the top spots for Captains and 1,200 of the top FO spots for LUA FOs.
Plus we weren't flying it so we didn't care. Pay banding it helped us get better 787 rates for sure.
Its all over now so who really cares. Let's just move on please.