Originally Posted by FixTheMess

There still seems to be a lot of misinformation floating around about this hiring agreement.

US Airways must offer jobs to the lesser of: 25% of total new hire positions during a calendar year, or 3 of our pilots for each month they hire. i.e, if they hire 60 in one month, and 0 in all other months for the calendar year, they only have to offer 3 positions to our pilots, not 15.

Also, the amount drops to the lesser of 25% or 2 pilots per month US Airways hires in 2016 and 2017. After that, our contract is amendable, and the agreement is over until it is re-negotiated.

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but all I can go off of is the wording in the new contract. The only wording I am aware of is US Airways must OFFER said number of positions. I would take this to mean if they offer Pilot Joe a new hire position, and he decides to ditch class for United, US Airways may use that offer towards meeting their commitment. This only makes sense, as I don't see why they should have to go out of their way to accommodate our guys not taking what is offered to them.

If US Airways hires more than 144 pilots spread out over 12 calendar months continuously for the entire duration of this agreement, realistically, I see 36 of our guys getting offers for 2013-2015. Then, in 2016-2017, 24 of our guys per year getting offers. I wouldn't expect to see more than 156 of our guys total getting offers if Piedmont is still around through 2017. That is still a decent amount of pilots, but much different than saying a straight 25%. That number would be much higher, and inaccurate.