It would reduce movement, no doubt, because it removes the pay incentive to bid up to the next highest paying seat. What will happen is guys will pick the seat where they will be the most senior, and stay there forever, there would no longer be a reason to bid up to the next highest paying seat, if they all pay the same.

Seniority in category will be 'everything' so look for the bottom half of the highest paying categories today to bid to something else where they would now be in the top half of the category.

OK, so what does that do to the training church? .

It reduces the waterfall of backfill training we see today. One 777 Captain retires, one 737 Captain bids into the 777/747/330/764/767 category, nobody else moves, because there is no longer an incentive for the 767 Captain to move up to the 764, or for the A330 Captain to move up to the 777. Everyone stays put, except for one 737 Captain. Instead of each retirement generating 5 or more training events you have one training event.

Less pilots will have to go to the school house, which means all categories are now overstaffed, so it will lead to fewer wide body captains required overall to fly the schedules.

It's a manning concession, Shirley.

Now, what are you willing to pay for that?