Originally Posted by
LAX Pilot
That's a terrible argument. There was no "Expectation" or "Guarantee" that a COEX hire would be hired by CAL. Also, a career expectation is just that, regardless of being active or not.
An ACTIVE CAL pilot has 188 777 Captain jobs to look forward to.
A FURLOUGHED UAL pilot has about 800 747 or 777 Captain jobs to look forward to.
Yes there was, we had a flow though agreement...You could get in 3 ways...the top 110 guys/gals on the COEX list when the flow through agreement was signed...Interview, or RJ PIC for 2 years.The interviews were conducted in 98-2000 and those hired were put into a pool with off the street hires with a guarantee of a class date when the ratio kicked in. The IPO was the only reason the tie was severed. But agreements were still bound by the two companies in MOU and pref hire status.
The first half of many flowthrough retained their board dates as their date of hire, only the IPO eliminated the board date as a means to payscale once the transition to CAL happened. Which is why the MOU agreements were signed...
Again, this is just trudging up the past but maybe it will shed some light on why you may be getting "board date" answers for hire dates from CAL pilots...my advice would be to not ask as you probably already know the answer and any other discussion would just lead to disagreement.
Sorry you don't like the answer, but it's probably what most would tell you