Originally Posted by
Olecal
Age has nothing to do with it! So what your saying is, because you are younger, you have time! They didn't make the career decision for the folks at UAL. They chose a different path, and you feel they should be punished for that? See NS's testimony of 'A tale of two pilots". My mediator friend says that is a very difficult situation for the arbitrators to overlook, it's likely they won't!
This, however, will also not go overlooked,
Originally Posted by
Sunvox
In the year 2033 (20 years from now), there will be 2272 pilots from today's list working at UAL. Of those pilots 1595 are CAL pilots and 677 are UAL pilots. Right now the combined company has roughly 2400 WB-CAP jobs. Right now CAL has 800 WB-CAL jobs. So right at the start the CAL junior pilots are guaranteed a WB-CAP job where before only 1/2 would have gotten there within 20 years. And, that is without regard to seniority, it's a simple fact of having 3 times the number of jobs as before the merger. Put another way if UAL stood alone those UAL pilots would all be 747 or 777 Captains and would have been for quite some time.
and I for one find it quite dramatic especially when combined with the mega-carrier argument. That argument says the facts of history have shown that UAL managements assumption that further industry consolidation was inevitable is now a fact of history and CAL's management plan to continue as a stand alone carrier was a failed plan. Seen in that light the CAL pilots had a greatly diminished future if any future at all if they had not merged with UAL.
We shall see whose argument the panel finds more compelling.