Originally Posted by
FedElta
Can any of you insiders educate me on payrates via LOA 19 ? In regards to A319/320, the 320 is heavier and has a few more sets than the 88, and pays more. The 319 is heavier than the 88, but has fewer seats, but still pays more.
The 88/90 pay differently, why not the 319/320 ? Don't want to bring the bus rates down, would rather bring the 88 rates up.
Just curious about the methods used .......slow ??
Regards...........
Heyas Fed,
The LOA 19 rates were concocted to manipulate the SLI process. Nothing more.
Really, a 777 paying the same as a 747-400 that seats near 100 more people? A 330-300 that pays the same as a 767-400?
All the other "speed/range/lift" BS is just eyewash. They couldn't go into the SLI with the an LOA that was wholly concocted by the fDAL side that paid more for heavy NWA metal. It would have been used as evidence in the SLI hearing, probably to great effect.
But they couldn't figure out a way to bias ALL the payrates without being too obvious, so they (correctly, IMO), biased the top end, figuring that was where the benefit was. Thus your MD-88 rates.
Thanks to that strategy, we're now stuck with those rates. I can pretty much guarantee you after 2012, the "formula" will mysteriously change to put the rates back the way they "should" be. Your 'A' shouldn't be that grumpy about it...his position on the seniority list was probably improved significantly by this strategy.
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