Originally Posted by
HendrixSG
A person I know posted this today on Facebook, supposedly an excerpt from an XJet ALPA e-mail, just curious if anyone has any info...or if this really was sent out today.
On the ERJ side of the house, we are seeing block hours increase again and more pilots being hired and upgraded. In addition, we are bringing back 18 of the 26 furloughed XJT pilots who went to ASA over a year ago. They will be arriving in the training center soon after the New Year. Added to that will be furloughed ASA pilots who wish to be hired on the ERJ side and placed into training as new hires with us. MOU 25 outlines a process similar to the one in MOU 18 when our furloughs went over to the CRJ side. While these furloughed CRJ pilots will be new hires on the ERJ, they will retain their furloughed status on the CRJ. Once the seniority list is integrated, they will retain their CRJ seniority spot on the pilot seniority list.
Haha. This is great. I've been at ASA about 13 months now. If furloughed I would go to the bottom of some ERJ list somewhere. Then once the Joint list is complete I would magically be catapulted ahead of all the ERJers on the list who are now (always have been) junior to me. Not to mention I just got off 1st year pay. Do I go back to 1st year pay I am furloughed by ASA and hired by Expressjet even though we are the SAME COMPANY?