Originally Posted by
HundredPercentPlease
Still no.
You can be the pilot with the greatest aptitude, but not so great at understanding and correcting a junior pilot's ways - and therefore you should never be a trainer.
As has been pointed out above, the top salary is "the" salary, and you have to suffer a discount on the way up there. At my airline, FO's are paid terribly (take home around £1400 after loan repayments) and they only stay as they are on the path to "the" salary. To then say that everyone should settle for the intermediate or lowest discounted salary is very wrong.
HPP - you are right, which is why the whole structure would need to be looked at from entry upwards. I am not sure BA will accept doing nothing is therefore the only option though. If they are looking for structural changes.
i guess if just looking for a temporary solution, when is temporary no longer temporary - 1 year, 5 years, when margins return to pre-Covid levels ? BALPA have a tough negotiation.