Originally Posted by
Slammer
I hear you ...but if the future is that bleak, having to commute to EWR (which I do and many others), flying a 737, which is the growing fleet, then why would you put yourself through this again, just as you said to be a reserve puke ( all of us have been)I'm not making light of your concerns, but trying to inject some realism...if you are furloughed, and will be junior on recall, your choices are limited..and Jay is not the reason.
Because if we had a JCBA, we wouldn't have those terrible work rules that CAL reserve pilots presently have to endure. (And please, if anyone from management thinks this pilot group will settle for CAL's reserve work rules in a JCBA...they are living in La La Land.)
Commuting is one thing--I've done it for years, too...but not for UAL. ORD had always been the most junior (and largest) of domiciles at UAL--and that's why I live here. If I have to be junior again
12 years after I was hired, I have to accept that. Just not commuting any more.
Again...no JCBA (thanks, Jay!), no chance of a near-term recall to UAL for me.
SCR