Dragon man, no doubt you've seen my comments on Qrewroom. Any S/O on the 744 who has been there for 10 years is senior enough to be an F/O on the 744. Yes, they won't get a pay rise until the S/O year 7 pay rate exceeds there current pay rate and that's about three or four years away. However, if they take promotion to the 767 they'll do much better out of it in the medium to long term. When they upgrade to Captain they'll do better again. We've replaced a 12 year pay scale with a 21 year pay scale where the top is much higher than it was previously.
Those who take promotion within the first seven years are looking at a significantly better pay deal than under the previous EBA.
There may be many things to vote 'no' in this EBA, pay is not one of them when considered over the entirety of a career.
The increased divisors will come at the cost of about 21 commands and 42 F/O slots. Twenty one F/Os that replace the guys that got promoted and 21 for the extra flying required to be done due to the lower divisor. Given that QF already runs up hard against those higher divisors a few times a year we're probably at the right establishment for them anyway.
Now, can we take it back to Qrewroom?
