Originally Posted by
Khantahr
The average Joe flying the line doesn't even know that there are farmers at all.
I think that is not true, and certainly won't be true the longer this goes on (on the domestic side at least; it is still fairly rare in the WB categories that aren't 7ER). It is not just the "farmers" getting a whole lot of 23.M.7 money for doing nothing that is going to create a lot of resentment. It is the fact that many mid-seniority pilots who used to get GS fairly predictably no longer can, while IAs and 23.M.7 payments go out to other pilots that aren't them. DALPA knows this. Everyone knows that the current status quo is not what was ever envisioned or desired at the negotiating table.