So... just so we're clear... you personally did this? You're taking personal and/or effectual personal credit for getting the UAL furloughees back into the cockpit? UFB. Your posts are the most condescending posts of any pilot I've ever read. You did NOTHING to make this happen. NOTHING. Don't act like you did. Decisions have been made that benefited UCH. You didn't make them. You working "extra hard" as a pilot for UCAL didn't make it happen, and me working for UAL didn't cause it in the first place or make it happen. If you really feel that you're the cause, reason or fault in any of this then you simply don't understand how the big the game is or how it is played.

Am I glad that then furloughed LUAL pilots have been offered employment at LCAL? Absolutely. That said, they furloughed so that the merger could happen (I could care less if you agree). We flew all of the same jets (737's) that UCH is now proposing that CAL will fly on the same routes not 4 years ago. They "replaced" them with inefficient RJ's, and claimed that the 737's simply couldn't be flown cost effectively despite the fact that they had the lowest cost of ANY 737 operator in the US through our bankruptcy contract. Total and complete crap. They were parked for a reason. Any guesses what that might be? The 50-70 seat RJ isn't a panacea. It isn't more efficient than any of our "old" 737's that it replaced. Period.