Originally Posted by
Erxs
Those who are complaining about pay banding are not looking at the big picture. Either way it would work out that roughly the top 500 guys would be making the large jet pay and the rest small jet pay. Only if it were paid on actually aircraft, senior guys in NYC and MIA would start choosing to commute to DFW and ORD for the 175 and $10 an hour more pay, pushing junior guys to end up unwillingly commuting to NYC. The junior people who are in the 175 complaining about this right now would be stuck on the 145 with 5 leg days in broken planes AND small jet pay. Yeah if tomorrow it changed to pay actual jet vs seniority guys who are within a year of flowing wouldn’t move planes for pay, but over a years time the seniority/aircraft/base ratio would change and it would absolutely shake out to be a worse situation for all involved.
So, all those guys who could bid anywhere else but NY, but still choose NY, because they probably live in NY, would choose to commute to DFW just for $10/hr. Mind you that $10/hr gain would be wiped out by one missed commute. There are less than 100 people who could possibly do what you are suggesting, and they are giving up their no commute and first pick of lines just for $10/hr.
Only about 150 of the pilots making pay band C actually fly the 175. Most of the pilots getting it are the DFW and ORD 145 lineholders with weekends and holidays off. There are also a large chunk of them wandering the hallways in Irving.
What pay banding does is keep the majority of 175 pilots paid at 145 rates while the company gets to advertise higher pay that doesn't really exist and keeps the majority of guys flying the line paid less than PSA on both airframes.