I never understood why they chopped first year pay so heavily. Frontier wasn't hiring in huge numbers when they inked those 1st year rates, so the number of new guys/gals on first year pay had little effect on the cost savings in the concessionary contract. Was it short-sighted or just greed? Maybe dc7c or one of the other architects of the 2007 contract can chime in. I'm guessing I'll get something along the lines of, "well everybody else was doing it!"