Seaman, I have no doubt they are in another tangle. They rarely aren't. However, they are very much set up for giving pilots a pay rise without having to reward the rest of the company (or vice-versa if they feel so inclined). That is why we have "FD" job grades instead of the standard "EK" grades in the rest of the company. In a rare piece of foresight, no repeated since, the realised long ago that pilots may need to be rewarded separately.