Thanks for posting Skippy. I have been here for almost nine months and most of the guys are pretty good to fly with. I am tired of hearing that a furloughed pilot has no career expectations however. If a furloughed United pilot was scheduled to be number one on the list before being furloughed he was still scheduled to be number one upon recall. United had over twice the number of wide bodies and twice the number on order. The good news is that by the end of the year we should have close to 400 United pilots on the property, a huge voting block and probably enough to gain seats on the MEC. Their tactic of delaying the contract to get as many upgrades as possible will come back to bite them in the ass.
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skippy
Ladies and gents... Just did the fam in kiah and this is my take.
They have been "approved" for 48/50 a month thru spring.
They are very short and very desperate...which is :
1. Why CV wasnt at fam bc he was in ord trying to figure out how to do the new hire program and 2 why they reoffered to the furloughees again...bc they cant staff the upcoming classes after mid nov.
They needed 95 ish spots and got only 33ish. To help, they WILL offer preferential interviews ( just make sure they dont have dwi's , arrests, etc) to people who had class dates or past the previous interview and were in class limbo status.) Will have some 75/76 drops after october.
With united rules, cal is currently 350 pilots short, with the new contract, it will be much more. So, to prepare for summer '13 they have to,train, train, train....
United is going to fly up to 2.5% less....dont know if this is decreased rj or mainline yet....we'll see soon enough.
The alpa guy was good, we basically agreed to disagree on many items. Everything cal does is to do what they think will increase their sli position.... Wanted to increase the $750 advance? No, bc that would decrease their sli arguement. Dont ask me why but the list goes on. Most just dont get it, the sli is already done using the three items in the alpa merger policy... Some cal pilots just dont get that. They want every possible advantage to help them.. Its really getting old. I wouldve retired 173/7746 ish at stand alone ual and just bc im furloughed, i,dont have career expectations? How can a cal pilot justify that? Smisek even said if we didnt merge, cal would simply GO AWAY...fact. And the union made a deal to not use smiseks words in the sli? What a croc.
If u think the jcba took time and has been a hard battle... The sli will be much worse, we will just be getting paid more.
Cal reserve sucks, but that will change shortly.
Enjoy...