Originally Posted by
cadetdrivr
Agreed.
But in the case of UCH and UCH's plans for 2013, I think UAL ALPA has a very legitimate reason to "trust but verify."
Later this year
"S-UAL" 737-900ERs are scheduled for delivery combined with the retirement of L-UAL 757s. Considering the total absence of a pre-SLI S-UAL 737 training program, IMHO, it's a reasonable concern of UAL ALPA that UCH could attempt to train and staff the 737-900ERs prior to combined operations using its existing S-CAL assets.
There is no possible way l-Cal can finish all of the training in this bid prior to SLI. Even just the 737 is unattainable with all of the guys moving up.
IAH Chief Pilot talked yesterday about just work rule improvement required training was about 800 pilots just for the CAL side.
He stated there will be significant numbers of unfilled vacancies at SLI. They know that and those will just be rolled for the post SLI bid.
Reminder, 270 of those bids are from Aug 2012, and the rest are for projections out 12 months, even though SLI could be in 6 months. They know they need training at IAH and dentk prior to summer.
Admiral