UAL new hire class company paid steak dinner in private room, nice welcoming to United speech, presentation of coat wings, shirt wings and hat device in 'jewelry' box with a professional photographer. Also given lapel wings for suit. (Not what is was compared to the 90s and earlier, but still nice and respectful)
UAL wings... legacy, traditional, three bladed prop behind United Shield icon.
CAL new hire class pass out one set of coat wings wrapped in a plastic bag in indoc class. Pay for your own scrappy wing embroidery on shirts, if you choose. Welcome to CAL.
CAL wings... generic off the shelf square globe logo between two wings..Same wings as banana republic airlines, aka COPA.
UAL: retirement photo of pilots' jet in a frame matte, about 20x24. Fellow pilots write nice comments and well wishes, with plenty of space.
CAL: cheesy 8x11 printer paper of pilots ID photo that says Congratulations on retirement. Hardly any room for comments. The paper looks like a page out of kids 5th grade year book.
Bottom Line: UAL is a gentleman's airline compared to scruffy CAL. Not saying UAL doesn't have it's capital/labor issues, but there is a considerable difference.