Originally Posted by
TransWorld
It is common and long-standing to have pay banding. AA has had Groups I, II, III, IV. It has a lot of justification and inertia. I doubt you would get a majority of pilots to agree to change it.
I'd argue that we almost already have AA's pay groups. Just like AA's group III, the 757/767 is a rate in between NB and WB, and the 717/221 is less than NB, ie group I.
Obviously the 223 and airbus have different rates, but in the grand scheme of things we're pretty much already there.