Originally Posted by scrmhalf

Well
I believe the 16% DC should have been “harmonized” from the beginning. Harmonizing is both used by ALPA and Mgt. Basically, A new hire would start off with say 5% DC that grows each year at 1% until he/she hits the max. That should have been done until every DZer was made whole.
Since we can’t do that, we should all know that pay banding, which is coming, helps the Junior more than the senior, because a smaller AC will get a bigger pay raise. Let’s also say that better vacation accrual helps Junior also. Let’s also say that a bigger pay raise as a opposed to a bigger retro ( which I heard is in the works) benefits Junior because some of them weren’t even on the property two years ago.
And since the pilot pool of DZers has shrunk considerably, maybe junior’s ok with at least one part of the contract benefiting pilots that kept the airline together through the BK years