Fedex. UPS. SWA. DAL. HAL.







UAL.

This place has fallen SO far from what it was and el hefe seems intent on making it even worse. He is blowing a golden opportunity to revamp and remake both crummy airlines into one great one. The CAL guys like to badmouth UAL and that is certainly their right, but most UAL guys will say that this has become a significantly worse place to work since the merger. We're treated worse, the product is worse, training has become a joke, Captain's authority continues to be undermined, the coffee sucks, even mindless minutia like payroll has become a farce, and the rumored changes and pin heads in high places only seem to indicate more of the same.

He wants us to have a ten page contract with zero work rules and benefits. Fly to FAR's? Two hour reserve callout with moveable days? Two guys across the Atlantic in a 57? Have fun when the shinola hits the fan and you turn north with all the big red lights and bells on! It would not be my choice by a long shot. Add to that the toxic mess which will be the result after the SLI (if it ever happens...see "USAIR vs. AWA") and this place will be nothing more than MESA with bigger planes.

MESA....say, didn't Jay Pierce quit CAL to go to work for for that guy (orenstein) and then somehow reclaim his seniority number at CAL??? Does that make any sense to anyone other than JP? It stopped being a career a LONG time ago. Now it's a cold whopper junior with no special sauce and a spam pattie. The tulip is dead. You can do much better.