Originally Posted by
slowplay
I'm not disagreeing with your premise, but the original poster said "bring back jobs to mainline and your advancement will be much quicker." I provided examples of airlines that have those jobs at their mainline...and at each one they had furloughs and no advancement.
Yes, the early retirement program helped, but we didn't retire as many as we hired that year.
CAL's furlough was a result of the age 60 change, it's quite a stretch to suggest that scope had anything to do with it. They were hiring for attrition, and it didn't happen. And yet, somehow, miraculously,
we continue to shrink the pilot group in spite of our hiring. If the 'growth' we've seen due to outsourcing is the result of previous scope sales, you've just given me yet another example why we shouldn't allow more large RJ's.
Do you even hear yourself? Are you actually trying to imply that growing large RJ fleets is a good thing for the pilots at the mainline? Tell that to the guys who have been stuck on the bottom of our list for 10+ years.