I'd be happy with RA65, so long as the provisions for bypass pay are clarified and improved. We are all in agreement that time to upgrade will be extended, so therefore our career earnings will be reduced the longer we are delayed - even if in receipt of the COS99 bypass pay. I support Numero's incremental bypass pay proposal:
Bypass pay to equivalent delayed rank and promotion to bypassed rank. That means that your second year of command bypass should be to CN2, third year to SCN1 etc and then your eventual promotion should be to appropriate rank eg SCN2. Only in this way will there be no financial penalty to CoS99 employees for CX wanting to increase RA.
I'm a bit perplexed that there hasn't been any proactive polling of the AOA membership on what we think is an acceptable amendment(s) to "our" contracts. ? In the absence of AOA seeking information, I'd suggest we get off our collective backsides and ensure the GC knows what we want.