Originally Posted by
Gone Flying
I can agree to disagree on this. I appreciate your viewpoint and understand why the idea has merit, but to me I just think they don’t offset the downsides. But I can understand the benefits and see why some people might like it.
I guess this idea would come down to the details for me. I think in general it is bad for pilots due to several factors like I mentioned above and in my mind such a deal would have to come with enough of a win for us to offset those.
if the company just offered us 1 pay scale similar to UPS and the rate was the weighted average of all our current payscales and block hours I would think it is a bad deal. This rate would probably be similar to the ER rate and I think it would be bad for quite a few reasons. Conversely if we were offered the current top WB rate for all aircraft I think it would be a great deal.
Re-reading our conversation I see where we missed each other. Yes I'm advocating for a single longevity based pay scale (one FO and one CA) based on our WB rates. ER rates or similar for everyone would be viewed as a concession and I think rightfully so. As to how something like that would be implemented, yes the devil is in the details. I could see some kind of aggressive increase in category freezes for some time with a decrease after an expiration date. There the argument would be it's a higher price tag but there are short term contractual savings from training costs and long term potentially from bidding behavior.