Originally Posted by IAHB756

I have a question. I have heard a lot about all of those 737's being parked and the claim that it was "for the merger" even though it occurred prior to the merger announcement with CAL. The "large widebody order" was also just prior to the merger announcement but nobody likes to talk about that. This "order" was obviously a bone thrown to UAL-ALPA by Tilton as it will be used as an argument by the UALALPA Merger Committee in their argument during SLI talks. Which argument do you guys want "on the record" as you can't have both. You either claim the airline was "rightsizing" for the merger or you claim that United had its own growth plans and these A-350's and 787's were key tools in the modernization of the UAL fleet(these were all replacement aircraft anyway).

This latest grievance which referred to CAL as an "affiliate" airline (skywest, expressjet, mesa etc) was laughable at best. If that doesn't show just how arrogant the UAL-MEC is I don't know what does. IAH-787 was announced years ago and the TPA allowed the 787 to be flown out of EWR as well in the future should that be needed.