I’m afraid it seems to go full circle in BA. I’m sure many of the old hands in BA can tell you at one point 30 odd years ago, the highest paid pilots in BA were the shuttle back up boys followed by short haul pilots. At the time, short haul commands were like gold dust and pilots waited close to 20 years to achieve one. Then we had a chief pilot that asked, why do we have relatively expensive short haul pilots? (Without asking why do we have relatively cheap long haul pilots? )
The money was redistributed and supposedly more money chucked into the pot via the unions negotiating.
Any particular fleet in an airline is going to be the highest paid and unsurprisingly that is where the majority of the senior guys will migrate to. After all, we are all professional pilots. Professional as in , we get paid for the job as opposed to being any good at it.
