Originally Posted by
jaykris
Hey EMB,
You have got to understand the position there. You are flying OUR flying, you are correct, we do have a scope that allows it. What you DONT know, is that we never got to vote for the relaxed scope. A MEC Chairman in the dark of night named PW, and whos name will forever hang in the house of shame, signed over 50% of our "domestic" flying, or so he thought, United interpreted it to be 50% of total block hours....
Hence the frustration on our side. Its not you per se, its what you represent to the mainline. Lower scale pay, less work rules, less training, less education required, a complete drag to the bottom of our profession, etc etc that we had fought for decades to get, and then lose in bankruptcy. It sucks.
The majors demand a 4 year education, the regionals do not. The majors demand an ATP, the regionals do not. The majors demand a clean criminal record, the regionals do not. And so on, and so on......You represent UAL to the public........nuff said.
J
You also have to understand who XJT is (You may, many L-UAL still don't know). Many of our employees were hired by Continental, many FA's actually flew for CAL and then were given financial incentive to transfer to the "division" then-known as Continental Express, and spun off into ExpressJet without the ability to come back. Nearly all of our pre-merger management came from Continental. A large portion of our pilot group started out with paychecks that said "Continental Airlines," and were
somewhat close over a decade ago to being on ONE LIST with CAL. I and most of the guys I fly with support your fight for Scope.
We are not the droids you are looking for.