Originally Posted by
chuck416
^^^totally agree^^^
The rate of pay for different airframes makes absolutely no sense. Seriously needs correcting.
747 = A350
777 = A330
737 = A320
ALL DC-9 variants (MD-88/717/MD-90) should be same rate, and probably at the A320/737 scale. Gotta' be a story here as to how messed up our pay system became.
Maybe we can pay band like UAL and AA as James Bond has put forth numerous times. We started losing the logic of pay rates in C2K when we followed UAL and combined the 757/767 into one rate but yet retained different rates for the MD88 and MD90. It would be nice to get a higher percentage of our pilots at the highest pay scale...preferably by buying more big metal but recent history has shown that is not likely to happen so we might as well pay band up.
Of course, enacting paybanding would be a concession in the eyes of the 10% "absolutely no" crowd because pay banding would likely reduce some training/AE movement...so I guess it will never pass.