Originally Posted by
svergin
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.
Just to nitpick.....
At the time of the tentative JCBA, August 3 2012, UCH/UAL didn't have any 787's. CAL had ceased to exist on March 3,2012. The first 787 (from a CAL order. UAL also had 787's on order but those were to be delivered later) wasn't delivered until 7 weeks later at the end of September 2012.
So now that the JCBA/SLI political gamemanship is long over, can we get a realistic pay rate table on the next contract that does pass the common sense test? This goes for all aircraft types, large and small and those in between.
DC