You could tell that they were going to justify this unconscionable pay when the comparisons to the 320 were made over and over. 66% of seats, size, etc.
How come they didn't compare it to the B717?
For those of us that are in the bottom half of the seniority list, this could have been a nice option while we waited for the 320 left seat "carrot". Neeleman came to recurrent and related the story of the pilot that wanted the 190 to be paid at 320 rates. Of course he used an over the top/outrageous example to justify the rates. No one really expected that. In fact, even another $10-15/hour might have been incentive enough...at the very least not such an insult.
Not worth my time or effort to go to training, take a 2 month paycut, and then sign the logbook for another 15 grand a year over what I'm making now.