Originally Posted by
Coto Pilot
With the TPA, parking United airplanes will cost the company a fortune. Every furloughed United pilot will get 4 months of severance and then is eligible for a vacancy at Continental for which they will be paid whatever they were making at United. And in the process the pilots will be offline in training for two months at a cost of what, 50K? Throw in some voluntaries like happened last time and you have guys making up to $190/hour to sit in the right seat of a 737.
Slight error in the pay when a furloughed UAL guy gets on with CAL. He is paid at the rate for his CAL seat at his years of service with UAL. I think the junior guy currently on the line at UAL has 10? years of service, so he would be paid as a CAL 737 f/o with 10 years of service instead of new hire rates.
Joe