Ok. Please explain then how YOUR longevity deserves to be rewarded more than MINE.

My understanding of this "targeted pay raise" concept is to compensate senior first officers for lack of seat progression brought on by regulated age increase from 60-65. To follow that same logic, we would have to apply that same pay raise to:

- F/E's who didn't make F/O
- Narrow body F/O's who didn't make wide body F/O or narrow body CAP
- Wide body F/O's who didn't make narrow body CAP or wide body CAP
- Narrow body CAP's who didn't make wide body CAP.

I just think the whole concept is without merit. A knee-jerk reaction to the cries of a few most affected by age 65. Remember, we are not talking about furlough assistance. No one is getting ready to lose their house.

And seat progression was not "artificially limited". ALPA national did what it thought best for the industry as a whole. It helped hundreds of pilots who lost most of their retirements and gave them a chance to work a few more years. So it's going to hurt the junior members now, but on the flip side, it will give you that same opportunity to work a few more years if some financial misfortune comes your way. So it's unfortunate, but asking to redistribute any financial gains this crewforce might have coming toward a particular seat position or seniority is just, well, dumb. So say we do it and 3 years from now it comes to pass. All those guys we just voted the raise for now get upgrades to CAP. Brilliant. Have you thought any of this through?

I know getting stuck in the right/back seat stings, but it's just bad timing.

Most pilots will still spend more time in the left seat for the life of their career than the right, with the exception of possibly retired military pilots. So you'd be stabbing yourself right in the paycheck with this stunt.