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APC225
I am quite sure you don't represent UAL pilots. They, as CAL pilots, understand that the contractual rights of seniority along with the the unpredictability of the company's business plan often means pilots, along with their spouses and children, get wrenched from their current location or lifestyle into another. It's the nature or our business. But none that I know of are gleeful at someone else's misfortunes, which sooner or later may be our own.
It is quite remarkable that your MEC Chair fought against an SFO 737 base because of the "emotional distress" it would cause the pilots, yet here you are delighting in the what may be a far worse fate (no one would have been displaced from SFO) for DEN pilots. The dots don't connect on this one.
When 17 years gets you bottom reserve right seat in DEN, it is tuff to see an 8/05 hire get a Cap seat, even if it is only a snapshot bid. The delay in the SLI (DAL/NWA had one in about 6 mo) is creating some inequities that WILL be rectified in the future. Nature of the business, like you said. Establishing an SFO 737 base would have just added salt to the wound. UCH is pushing it already.
Sled