Originally Posted by
bjstout
I agree. The only thing is that the highest paid Capt on the property here is making only $209/hr on the 747-400/B-777. Plenty of room for upward adjustment. Even if we left it at $210 for CA and and $147 for FO's, it would be a raise for everyone.
In the end, your opinion of a system is determined by where you are in the system. Any system has an advantage to some at some particular point in a career, and some are at a disadvantage at some particular point.
YOU do not set how this is done. Your company does. That being said, you can look to other methods all day long. The only way a company is going to change that is if they save money which in the end means overall you as a group make less.
I certainly wouldn't try to change a cultural thing like this because in the end every system has some that benefit and some that get gored....it isn't worth a fight over this. Just try to raise the rates you have from within your own system.