Originally Posted by
Moby Dick
Not a problem. Using the sale of Pan Am's Pacific division as a precedent, only the pilots currently holding A320 base positions could be sent to a new carrier with the F9 assets.
You may be too young to remember this, but there was a flurry of bidding to the whale when the UAL/PAA deal was going down. Anyone who wants to escape RAH needs to bid the A320 immediately.
It was much bigger than that. There were more players in the PAA deal. AA got alot of south stuff, DAL got the lion's share of Europe. Including the Frankfurt operation. There was a domicile in Frankfurt. You'd deadhead over on an L-1011, then fly "domestic" in and out of FRA for several days on the 727 before deadheading back home. Was a pretty sweet deal.
Anyway, as PAA fell, there were many, many "midnight sim-sessions" getting PAA guys off the heavies qual'd on the 727, so that when the axe fell, they were good to go with the airplanes.
Interesting stuff, and I hope the best for the Frontier guys and gals, but I gotta say, putting any stock in anything that BB says as far as your future........not so much. It's a gamble, but maybe better to get out and start building new seniority now than to wait. Problem is you won't know if that's the right move until it's all over.