Originally Posted by Gone Flying

nope, just RJ FO making less than a b scale pilot did, doing every walk around. Luckily I was not stuck doing that for a decade like some before me.

The reason NHs going to the top of the pay scale FO is new is because new hires used to not have a seat lock. I’ve flown with several pilots who told me they were hired into 727C and were ER Bs 6 months later. Now new hires have a 2 year seat lock, so thousands of current pilots were artificially held back from bidding those positions. Also you realize you are talking about like 50 pilots getting WB FO out of training, right? It was a few classes here and there and has not happened in a while and likely won’t happen again. It was a fluke caused by a perfect storm of events.

ER A going junior, all I have to say about that is ten thousand current DL pilots had to pass on that job for it to fall to new ish hires. Maybe there is a reason it’s going so junior.

we may be having good movement now, but new hires certainly won’t have the upward movement to senior NB CA or top of the payscale that 85-87 hires saw, or 2014-2016 hires have seen/will see