That would be a huge concession to the company. The scale topping out at 12 is a massive win for the pilot group as it gets more money to pilots sooner. LBP won't resemble some magical moral mandate where we just add another 30 years of annual raises on top with no downside. It would be us trying to spread the pay we could negotiate much thinner. Using a blended rate similar to the existing ER rate would put that top scale at around $600/hr. Unless all those longevity bumps were fractions of one percent, but then what's the point of that?

I'm more concerned with getting rid of "training pay" in favor of full line pay (plus hotels and uniforms) like UAL does rather than the antiquated "pay your dues" model. We all want more money and we should negotiate as best we can. But whatever we get shouldn't be spread over nearly half a century of pay tables. Getting 42+ years on the list is legendary ninja territory. Good for them. It shouldn't take them that long to get the top pay rate. As it is now they get to spend 30 years at the top rate. That's pretty good.

Closest alligator to the boat WRT LBP style concerns anyway is to blend a category or two. Of all the things in section 6 plus the new MBP I just don't see any mandate whatsoever for trying to fully and completely reinvent the wheel with this. But feel free to publish that pay rate spreadsheet so we can see how it would play out and maybe it'll change some minds.