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Old 01-20-2013 | 05:32 AM
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Originally Posted by LAX Pilot
I met a CAL early 90s hire who's a 777 FO. If he had bid capt, plus all the other pilots, no one hired after 97 would be a Capt at CAL.
That is a very good way to look at it and I think it may be one data point for the arbitrators as they try to assign an apple-to-apple comparison of the groups in the bottom third. But to complete the comparison you'd have to now identify what year the bottom UAL captain would be if every FO upgraded at first opportunity. If at CAL it is 97, at UAL it is 89? Only part of the picture with different rates of retirement, different fleets, financial sheet arguments, but a telling comparison to start off.

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