Originally Posted by
hummingbear
And I’m much less interested in appealing to junior upgrades. The fact that we’re trying to get 1-2 year FOs to upgrade underscores the problem.
Again, the rates are industry standard but they’re not sacrosanct. We could change them if we wanted to, & if the market gives us an opportunity why wouldn’t we? (Heaven forbid we lead on something Delta doesn’t do first.) Unfortunately I don’t see any way you’d get majority support for it here which is too bad because I think we’re missing an opportunity.
That assumes the pie is infinite. A sellable number to boards and shareholders is a more likely a finite range within which the contract's overall value will reasonably fall. Any addition to the pay spread for NBCA will come from somewhere else. That could be a soft-pay QoL item, but it will always be perceived as robbing from the FO scales (and why it would never pass).