Originally Posted by
Hedley
The biggest issue is that we have so many wide bodies that people get a taste of life on crack and going back to the NB domestic grind isn’t worth the small difference in pay between WBFO and NBCA.
Bingo. And that’s a very tough nut to crack when WBFO is such a huge voting bloc. You raise NB captain pay significantly more than WBFO pay and they’ll revolt, you raise them both significantly and there’s still not enough difference in cash to make them give up the lifestyle. I think the year of PS commuting was an attempt at bridging that gap.