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08-18-2012 | 06:01 AM

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El10

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Originally Posted by Zoomie

Maybe its just my perception, but it seems to me from posts on this board that there are number of members at UAL on APC that think they will go from furlough to a nice lineholder on their choice of base/equipment or from reserve FO to Captain based on them throwing out any mention of a DOH-type SLI for the bottom part of the seniority integration. That's exactly how a DOH scenario would turn out. Perhaps most of these guys are throwing out flame-bait, or perhaps they are really delusional to believe this is going to happen. Are union reps at UAL feeding this or is this self-induced wishful thinking.

I'm still curious if anyone has ever seen an SLI where a furloughed pilot was placed in front of an active pilot on an SLI. From what I understand, that would be unprecedented and has never happened at any airline, but I'm still waiting for one example, let alone a big enough example to hold up to an arbitrator.

This is going to happen with anyone who is on a voluntary furlough at UAL. A lot of this conversation is based on a falsehood of a immediate recall of all furloughs. This will not cause displacements, just stagnation. Unless the TA has recall language that allows for furloughs to be considered for vacancies I don't see how a furlough comes back to property with out having to come in as 737 FO, Then depending on seat/equipment locks in the TA how long will they have to sit to use there combined seniorty number.

Thankfully what we have going for us that Delta and Airways did not have is retirements in the forecast. This will dampen the stagnation of recall process. Until we get a TA passed all this really does not matter anyway.

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