Originally Posted by
Coto Pilot
As a United pilot in training at Continental, I can tell you that virtually every Continental pilot I have encountered has what I percieve to be an unrealistic expectation. There is no credit given to United's larger percentage of wide boby aircraft, the 747's were all going to be gone, United had no aircraft on order, United was in financial trouble and CO saved them, furloughed pilots are all going to be stapled etc.. I can tell you that for many of us furloughed pilots, we will not sit back and get screwed by ALPA again. As dues paying ALPA members, ALPA is now legally obligated to represent us in the integration. If it is not a vigorous representation, we will do what some many ALPA pilots have done before and file a DFR lawsuit.
Respectfully, what do you seek as a furloughed UAL pilot flying at CAL in regards to the SLI? I think if we all had a frame of reference to start from, we might actually get to the end result at least somewhat satisified.
I don't want either of the UAL or CAL supposed "positives" to reflect in the SLI. It's very easy to keep going down the "we have more than you" road but do any of us really want to receive a windfall or personal gain at the expense of others? (83 and 84 pilots at CAL excluded of course.)
Or are we destined to follow in the footsteps of USA and AWA and watch as we slowly destroy ourselves from within?