Originally Posted by
flyingfarmer
Not a rumor... talked to LUAL furlough coordinator myself. Also, received a follow-up email confirming our conversation. Basically, there is another 250-275 more to be offered a LCAL job before being through the list. However, all 1437 are "STILL" on furloughed status at the original United Airlines.
We are up to Furlough update #18
From the UAL MEC Update this week:
CAL Job Offers For United Furloughees
The following is from MEC Furlough Coordinator ........
On March 6, 2012, the twelfth new hire class at Continental began. The class of 20 brought the total number of United furloughees hired at CAL under the terms of the merger T&PA to 171. There are four more classes of 20 scheduled to begin this spring, the last currently scheduled for a May 1 start date (which was just added this week). 1,161 job offers have been made thus far, including the 93 job offers mailed this week to fill the May 1 class. The most junior pilot to receive an employment offer at CAL has a Feb. 4, 2001 Date of Hire, seniority number 7395.
The misnomer of “recall” continues to be used by far too many pilots when referring to these job opportunities at CAL. It must be clearly stated that these are job opportunities, NOT recalls. Accepting or bypassing a job offer at CAL under the terms of this agreement does not pose any impact on a furloughed United pilot’s recall rights or seniority at United or on the combined list. We will not consider a pilot recalled to United Airlines until they are flying a S-UAL aircraft, or they have taken their rightful place on the integrated seniority list.
Even though this agreement has returned 171 of our furloughed pilots to work for United Continental Holdings so far, the irony that they are flying the same type of aircraft at Continental that were parked by United to facilitate this merger and caused their furlough in the first place is not lost on them, the furloughed pilot group or the UAL MEC. We continue to press for the return of our furloughed pilots to the flight decks of United aircraft as soon as possible.