Originally Posted by
da42pilot
The AA B-scale was for ALL airplanes, correct?
If all RJ flying is brought back in-house on the same seniority list, with a flow straight to the A-scale dependent only on seniority, would that be acceptable? Keep it exclusively for RJs, protected by whatever is necessary, scope clauses, etc.
If there's confusion with the term B-scale or if the term has too much historical baggage, perhaps rebrand it. The regionals are a defecto B-scale anyways, except with numerous additional disadvantages because they're separate companies and seniority lists.
I wonder why major airlines pilots would not want this. It adds people to the seniority list, which increases job security. Surely getting pushed back into the B-scale wouldn't be as bad as a furlough. Or maybe it's the major airlines that don't want this to happen?
As someone who has been on a B scale please stop using the term incorrectly. What you are talking about is not a B scale. It's simply pay based on the revenue generation of the airframe which is how most pay scales are constructed.
As far as bringing the RJ's to the mainline it's not up to pilots. Delta had RJ rates in their pay scales for years. Management did not want the airframes at the mainline. Management controls that not pilots. In the end it's all about cost and management is not willing to pay the increased costs associated with moving all flying to the mainline.
Delta is however now moving a significant amount of RJ flying to the mainline via the 717 and CS100.