3% of our pilot group are at the top Capt pay rate, 7% if you include the 330/764 and only 20% of the group are even above our 7ER rate. It would be an interesting to see what we think a banded pay scale would look like here and cost out a normal career.

Ask the DTW ER guys. No international for them that originates in their base in Feb or so I read.

that’s what I’m afraid of.

After BS giving commentary on how quickly the new AE optimizer tool could work through solutions, wouldn’t it be reasonable (or interesting, or infuriating, or whatever) to ask for snapshot “draft” results once a day for the last 3-4 days before closeout?

He's addressed that before - the answer was that it wouldn't do any good because (a) a decent amount of people don't finalize their bid until near the deadline and (b) all it does is annoy people because they would cry, " but I held that position a week/a day/an hour" before the bid closed.

Plus the bypasses can drastically change what people can hold and they won't have enough information to even guess those until the final bids are in.

Bid what you want, want what you bid.

I want a bypass for 350A at age 37. I’ll bid that. I’ll post here with my results.

Is my bypass to the A350 included those percentages? Perhaps it's 3% holding the categories. I'm not in the category, but I'm at the "top Capt pay rate" you describe.

Lol, ok we'll ignore that many on bypass from the last AE will never actually see that rate, or only will see it for a few months, and add another 100 people. That would move the needle about .5% and maybe push us just into 4% territory.