Seems like the UAL guys still have sour grapes about the 76-400 paying the same as the 747. And if there had been a special higher rate for the jumbonauts, they would now be taking a paycut while their plane gets sent to the junkyard and turned into beer cans.

CAL used to have three rates; narrow body, mid-body and wide body. The company wanted to pay the 767-400 the same as the mid-body but we negotiated including it at the wide-body rates. Hence more guys got paid at the higher rate. I don't understand why that is not considered a good thing? More pilots making a higher rate. I thought that was the purpose of the union!

I find it appalling that currently the 757 is paid the same as the 737, and the 767 is paid only slightly more than that. That's where the union should focus the effort, raising the 757 and 767-300 rates, not cutting the 767-400 rate.

In any event, it's all moot to me, I make the WB CA rate. But, I would like to see more pilots making the higher rate, not fewer!

And the notion that by paying the 767-400 pilots more, the other WB pilots got paid less is simply not borne out by the facts. Like it or not, Delta's first post bankruptcy contract set the bar, not the UAL negotiating committee!