Originally Posted by
Ottolillienthal
Why wasn't Attrian a pilot at UAL? How could he rise to that position without having to prove himself amongst his peers and colleagues?
That's a good question. We can just speculate, however at the time these guys started showing up we constantly wondered why there wasn't any "native" United pilots getting these assignments. Some believe that management was being cautious to not **** off the union pilots with a scab appointment, and same by not giving the job to a "striker". Not so sure about that argument, as this was also done in Maintenance, Flight Attendants (I guess they call that "Onboard"), etc.
The first one was Hart Langer from Pan Am. He got hired straight into Sr VP of Flt Ops.
Some other non seniority list fellas:
Joe Cupcake
Don Dillman - American Captain retired from American in his early to mid fifties (good guy as I remember him)
Michael Quiello - former Delta Captain. Not sure if he retired from Delta. Believe he was hired directly into Sr VP of Corporate Safety. He has his picture in the inside cover of the SafetyLiner publication.