Disconnecting pay from seniority is a pretty radical idea, but maybe we need to consider it. There would certainly be some objections. First, companies would have to be forced to hire the high-wage veterans instead of low-wage rookies. No incumbents would be displaced, but it would "lock in" a pay inversion (reverse B-scale). There would be an internal battle over the next contract proposal, with senior, lower-paid pilots wanting parity, and junior, better-paid pilots saying "you still have less years of experience than I do." The company might say "forget it -- nobody gets a pay raise, because we had to spend it all on the new-hires."

Although the pay-for-experience idea has some definite merits for the profession as a whole, I doubt that any individual company or pilot group will voluntarily take in "refugees" except at the bottom of the seniority and pay scales. (Unless, of course, the refugees bring some nice airplanes with them).