I think we are all guilty of taking each AE award and extrapolating it out to form a picture that is inaccurate. Past AE's have favored the very senior, this one is primarily to staff new flying from marketing on the ER for the summer months, which must be international since they are adding FO's. Will there be another bid next month? Probably. Will it have openings for widebody Capt's? Depends what you consider a widebody. Since the 737-900 will take much of the 757's flying, then no, we won't be looking at much in the way of advancement for WB capt's.

This all goes back to tying the 757 to the 767 pay rate. In the end, it bit us in the a$$. You can crew an international 767 on a 13 hour flight to China for a few bucks more than a 737. That is just wrong in my book. And new hires going to the ER in NYC? That never would have happened 15 years ago when the ER paid way more than the 757 did. These are the consequences.

The 330 and 764 should pay closer to the 777/747. The 767ER should pay a lot closer to what the 330 is right now... The company is getting half its widebody international lift at narrowbody rates. DALPA has been telling us for years how great it is that they brought the 757 UP to 767 rates. That was a good deal when the 767 paid near as much as the 1011. Now, not so much... I'm hoping for a A350 order in April...

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[QUOTE=gzsg;1574759]Take a moment to think about what you wrote.

We have little to no retirements ER captain and above. We are parking (according to your post) 63 757s ad 9 to 12 767s.

We have 500 pilot retirements over the period we are parking the 757's. Most are 767 or more senior Captains. We are going to add about 120 A330 Captains over that same period. We will lose about 70 airframes staffed at domestic rates or about 490 Captains. Assuming not a single pilot goes out sick or retires early we still easily cover the loss of those airframes. The really good news is that that allows all the 737-900 airframes to be staffed with upgrades.
Again I don't see any large displacements and yes I have thought about it.

If you were a junior ER captain why would you bid off to a lower paying aircraft? Not to mention a crappier aircraft?

He will more then likely not have to given the current fleet plan. He will move up not down.

Zero displacements is a management fantasy dream.

It's also fairly simple math.

What percentage of overseas flying does the 7ER do, thought it was about 30%.

I agree, but Bama sure does seem to do well with their 4 and 5 star players. AU signed a pretty good class too. It would be interesting to see the stars given to the players in the Super Bowl. I wonder how many Jerry Rice had out of high school?

The huge pay difference you speak about between the 757 and 767er was about 8 dollars an hour. The base rate difference was about 3 dollars an hour and the gross weight pay difference at 3 cents per 1000 lbs was another 5 dollars.
In the 2001 contract the company unilaterally proposed to make the rates equal. The 767ER got the same general raise as other fleet types, the 757 a higher raise.

Not sure if they had stars then but given that he went to Mississippi Valley State I bet many large programs had noticed him.

I think I saw a statistic that showed 40% or so of 5-star recruits make it to the NFL. You'd think it was 80% given the hype. I heard a guy the other day on the radio talk about his HS baseball days whereas a pitcher he led the team to State and was highly recruited and everyone coddled him, went to FSUs big baseball program and found out he needed to work harder, he flaked out. Interesting to listen to and it all boiled down to having a ton of talent doesn't overcome being 18 and stupid.

Bingo! So much with coaching is getting "kids" prepared emotionally and building their ability to handle ups and downs and not caving from the downs. It's all about coaching in my opinion

I think you are mistaken. The 76ER had it's own separate scale, plus override and night pay. In 1994 a 12 year ER Capt's base pay was $197.00 per hour. What's it up to today... 219? It should pay far more than it does relative to a 737...

Yep, remember Trey Blackmon at AU? Huge can't miss out of LGC High School. I used to watch him only when they were on defense in HS. He went to AU and had some impressive flashes of brilliance, he sacked Tebow once after leaping over the center after the snap. An incredible athlete, but he couldn't stay out of trouble, going home to LGC on the weekends in the off season and smoking weed with his HS friends. He also got a couple of girls pregnant. Well, his issues ended up getting him kicked off the team and he ended up a couple of years in Canadian football.