Originally Posted by Boeing Aviator

Im the 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s most (not all) averaged at least 10 years to rock bottom reserve CA. Not true in the past decade or so.

Most pilots flew S/O - FE for several years before upgrading to FO.

Very few went straight FO and if they did it was it was into a 737/100/200 - DC-9 not straight into a 737 Max - 757 or A320 or ever a wide body.

B scale - most younger pilots doesn’t even know what is the B scale. Thanks ALPA for educating the newest members on the battles of the 80’s NOT!

At AA if you were new hire in the mid 80s through the early 90s, you earned a max of 50% of any A scale pilot, forever!

The B scale spread throughout the entire industry with United going on strike over the B scale in 1985.

It took about 17 years to get rid of the B scale at American. And most airlines had some form of a B scale (significantly reduced pay for 5 to 10 years) at all majors.

In 2005 at Continental new hires made $30,000 a year with no insurance for six months. Run that through an inflation calculator you’ll see the new hires today are making far more than that or what pilots were in the 80s and 90s under the B scale adjusted for inflation.