yes they did complain about it .....i remember tim H telling us that we should embrace the cat A's as they will be comming and will boust the numbers in OUR union,and we will be able to control them.....as for "brainless1" idear that the pay system will hold them back...remember that a cat A will only have to do a few years to become one as a full AME will still have to do four years so there is the carrot for them get in early and receive a payment earlier...mmmmm sounds nice..and yes FMU all present LAME's will be turned into B1&B2's ....hey with a payment,now I can just see a EBA ...get a payment for becomming a EASA type LAME and agree to cat A's ....let me get some feed back on that one....