Originally Posted by
BobZ
Establishing pay banding in and of itself is going to precipitate tremendous training churn at a time when the capacity is least able to handle it.
Decoupling pay from productivity is a bad idea. But if that is the way this group decides to go there is a much more beneficial strategy for management and the pilot group.
Longevity based pay. The aircraft pay formula is simply tossed. And a pilot is compensated on years of service alone.
Sucks for the 2015 765B.......but hey, its great for me!
There are a lot of ways to skin this cat. Pay banding is a fundamental and permanent change, to a temporary problem. And solving temporary problems with permanent solutions is how more often than not we have screwed ourselves.
I can't buy the first line. Why would establishing banding precipitate training churn? I'm thinking longevity pay would precipitate many more moves. I dunno, I'd like to see the rates simplified and I don't see how small, medium, large decouples pay/productivity... ok, a little bit. It seems the entire industry is going to this model. I for one think it would be a reasonable change. I also don't think the training problem is temporary. OFG