Originally Posted by
Speedtape
Now there is a senseless statement.
I have 17 days off and 80.5 hours of pay next month. Compared my schedule with a 320 FO on a recent commute. I get 5 more days off, and no 42 hour layovers in the sticks.
Maybe thats what a UAL furloughee remembers about the job, and why they assume that lowly CAL will be worse ?
I'm a 737 CA who goes back and forth from line to reserve. Every line I have had the last five years has been scheduled over 90 hours with no more than 12 days off. As senior reserve I fly everyday on reserve with few exceptions. I know from experience how quickly the senior pilots at L-CAL kick the junior pilots to the curb (that's one of the reasons I fly CA). I had the pleasure to fly with many of them after 9/01. Before the merger I was going to retire #9. So some day I too will be senior, but I will never forget how I was treated as a junior pilot for this company, and will not pull the ladder up on junior pilots.