15 year Jr F/O on reserve here.
I got no particular side in this but really people? Really? What the hell do you think they do when they merge two huge damn airlines? Leave it as it was?
dvhighdrive88,
First off, who do you work for? Second you've completely and totally missed the point. It's not about shifting stuff around and making changes. It's about one side, L-UAL, being decimated and the other side growing in leaps and bounds.
It about the L-CAL side having growth and movement and the L-UAL side being stuck in perpetual stagnation. Since I was surplussed to the right seat 2.5 years ago I've not moved up one single solitary number in fact I've slid back 3 numbers on my fleet and seat. That is with 15 working on 16 years of seniority.
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You need to look at EWR flying as well. The 756 CAL base has been desimated over the past year. There is almost no 76 flying at all. It has all been replaced by UAL. All 76s will be removed from IAH in the spring replaced with a UAL 76 base. It goes both ways. Just management doing their best to play us against each other.
thor,
It is not going both ways. You guys have vertical movement. We have a little lateral movement otherwise we are completely and totally stagnant. The recent recall then retraction of that recall notice is a prime example. If we had equipment bids, if we were recalling, if we had ANY movement I would agree with you. However we don't so as it stands right now, L-CAL, is being used to leverage L-UAL and yes the fact that you are hiring off the street and grow while we have furloughs out on the street and are stuck in perpetual stagnation is totally and completely wrong. It causes distrust, it causes hatred and it causes friction. What else could it possibly accomplish when you have a drastic inequity like this?