You top out at $47.15 now, after America West flight attendants were stuck on this
http://afa66.org/199...A_Agreement.pdf from 1999 until 2013. And then, the company provided an average contract that involved giving up everything that was good on the measily AWA contract such as VACATION. Most of the people that topped out in the time span given above, didn't want to give up their vacations anymore. Nevertheless, you guys were all tricked into this agreement with the threat of an impending merger and being possibly left out in the cold. Bottom line is, you got a COST NEUTRAL contract. The MONEYS were shifted, that's all. The gain was minimal.
On top of that, most scheduling rules are still going by the old contracts, and I am not sure, if US Airways is obligated to negotiate / implement the rest in a timely manner, considering the NOW-POSSIBLY-DELAYED merger with AA. If anything, US Airwa(cough) America West will drag these separate operations out forever, with AWA F/As only getting half the rewards and needed changes of the new CBA, with the excuse of
"we wanted to it faster, but we had other priorities at the time with the AA merger, sorry for the delay and giving you the shaft again." Implementing a new combined scheduling system COSTS money... If AWA execs can save money by keeping things the way they are forever, they will.
Again, to those that dream that somehow Dougie and CO. will no longer be as inconsiderate as he was with AWA employees and then also US Airways employees, wake up and smell the coffee.
AWA execs are NOT going to change just because they are now becoming YOUR boss at AA.