Originally Posted by
gettinbumped
Not really. If UAL had stayed independent, I would have been top 10 when I retire. So that's the CAREER expectation I have going into this. Time will tell if that career expectation is honored. I have my guess.. We just have different blocks of heavy retirements.
You've illustrated my concern, though. There is a post about United pilots somehow getting a seniority bump through the merger and now holding Captain spots (turned out to be false). This is followed up by a post jockeying for position about career expectation. No matter how this all goes, there are going to be some pilots that get "hosed" and some that get a windfall. We all need to remember that it is going to feel world-class cruddy for those that don't fare as well in the SLI, and show a little tact.
10-4 to that! There are 132 people on the LUA seniority list that are both senior to me and younger than me. I would retire #134, the about the top 1200 are WB captains. I call that career expectations. This argument is all out of our control and only will be decided by Arbitrators and NOBODY will be happy with the result, (except the #1 pilot on the combined list) so lets not all go there. Nothing positive will come from a wedge between our group. The JCBA is our #1 and only issue now.