NR will have a hard time justifying why one pilot in JFK will be hired on the 777 on DEFO mainline pay and another pilot being hired on the 744F out of JFK as DEFO with different pay scales or conditions of service. You bet ya it is being revisited.
As you know being voted down once means nothing with the CX pilots. Same will happen with the LON, AMS, CDG, LAX, SFO and any other place CX has a pax/freighter service.
There are many F/O slots in AUS, NA and EUR for DEFO’s. NR is having a hard time justifying why one of these positions is paid so little.
What will happen is it will be contained in the whole of the COS in where some will receive a pay rise (2%) but in order to accept that 2% there will have to be a F/O merged pay scale ( the poison seed in the cake if you will).
It does not affect the Captains or Senior First Officers, so why not vote for it, it does affect them and they get 2% out of it, the mainline DEFO’s will receive a pay cut but it does not affect the majority of CX pilots, so it will most likely be voted through.
Does B Scale sound familiar…………………………….. Did not affect A Scalers in 94 because they got an 8% pay rise for it. Now they can’t figure out why their conditions are going south.
So a long answer to a short question, yes it is being revisited.
