We need to get freighter pay up to pax pay! It's the only way to put Command opportunities back in order of seniority.
I'm not against guys taking early commands on the freighter - it's an immediate pay rise. Why wouldn't any new joiner who has 10 years to wait but already has the experience for a CX command just do them as a Captain on the freighter?
He probably gets to live in the country of his choice and also the choice to stay there on the freighter if he wishes, 'til he's senior enough for a pax base.
Now if freighter pay was equal, any new command on the -400 would come from a conversion from another fleet. It's amazing how CX doesn't do pax commands on the -400 due to sector limitations yet they do in on the freighter everyday - I bet you would see commands on the -400 instantly as CX changes the rules to suit them. Guys/Gals in the 900+ mark on the seniority list would be inline to take all the available commands which they should be!
(There are 15 more 747s on the way - fair enough the classics are leaving).
Secondly any new joiner who was looking for a pay rise via an early command might just realize the COS is just not worth it without the command option.
Face it HK isn't worth it any more, why not join on a base then make your own pay rise by taking a freighter command.
Captains are leaving the pax fleet to take a pay cut by flying the freighter just to get on a base. I saw the list on D don't know H's desk!
So once again CX WINS! as we screw ourselves bickering.
Soon the freighter fleet will be bigger than the -400 pax fleet! so in theory the majority of Capts, F/Os will be paid less than the minority! Now that makes sense
