Originally Posted by LAX Pilot

It was the opposite. We voted it in to move forward. CAL pilots voted against it to continue to grab upgrades and growth because their cost structure was less overall and it made more sense for management to hire to that side instead of the UAL side.

Most of these "junior Captain" arguments we keep hearing in the CAL talking points happened after the merger. Those should have gone to both pilot groups.

If I were management, I'd have tried to grow the CAL side as well. It just made financial sense.

Now with one contract, there isn't an incentive to do that.

We are all smart enough to see what was going on. The arguments of "The contract wasn't good enough" was lame, especially considering the same group previously voted in the terrible contract they were working under.

It is what it is. SLI and time will put everything in place. The guys who grabbed those seats, congrats to them. They will be junior for a long time.