Originally Posted by
dalad
I'm well junior to you and made 727A in NYC in 1998. You chose to remain as an FO, right? Also, the top rate for the 737 in MCO was around $114 per hour, as I considered bidding it. Those guys made a lot o $$$ when they started a GSWC campaign before the C2K negotiations. The union blew that whole case as that was a precedent.
Yes, I could have held either bottom 727A in LGA sitting Shuttle Standby in the lounge 12 hours a day, or bottom MD88A in LGA sitting reserve at Kew Gardens in Sept of 1996. I chose not to, but the lost 737-200 mainline jobs/pay rates slowed everyone's progression at that seniority level, except the bottom guys who bid Express, which started in 1996, at 100/hr, with a 2yr lock on.