The new Collective Agreement is still in its early days and the factored pay for positioning is an improvement. But there are still significant differences between Mainline and Cargo contracts when it comes to child education allowance.
Cargo has also adopted the Mainline LMA deal to pay allowances that used to be called Out Of Base Allowance. LMA may work for Mainline but it has had a varied response in Cargo. If you are line crew and buy the right people chocolates you seem to spend a lot of time in Europe and Australia on over $300 a night. If you spend your life going backwards and forwards to India and Orient then you have just had a major pay cut.
Yet more pilots will now be spending their time working out to the last cent which COPs are the most lucrative when their time would be better spent having a look at the Manuals.
The sooner we go back to Out of Base allowance the better.