Originally Posted by
gettinbumped
Agreed about Aug/Sept, but how is the pain being spread evenly when a LCAL pilot here has posted that he has moved up from 72 to 59% of the list in the last 3 years since the merger? I have moved down as a total percentage in the same time period.
Despite the exhibits, aircraft orders are VERY difficult to consider for the mergers carrier. The CAL management team that took over has kept overall capacity basically flat since the merger. I don't see any reason why that wouldn't have been the case in a stand alone CAL. On the flip side, Tilton was widely quoted as saying he was getting ready to order NB 737 replacement jets in 2009. On both sides, what WOULD have happened with capacity in a standalone operation is merely speculation. What HAS happened is that LCAL has grown and LUAL has shrunk over the past 3 years. And thank God we got a contract and the SLI is almost done or it would have gotten much, much worse
The TPA is quite clear about aircraft deliveries prior to the merger, so I have to disagree with any speculation.
While I have moved up 14% since MAD, I move up 28% from '05 to '10; which allowed me to upgrade '08. I don't think that had anything to do with my blue-suited brethren.
I can't think of a worse way to have managed these two Pilot groups. I agree that we've still got at least 75 UAL hulls that need to be parked by next year, so things could have gotten much worse. I'm happy that the sli is rapidly approaching, and don't intend on wasting anymore brain cells on a process that is pretty much complete. Let the cards fall where they may. On the same token, I wouldn't hang my hat on the new UPA. When you run the staffing numbers, you should be very concerned about 4 words in LOA 26
"Implemented with combined CMS". Let's hope I'm wrong
Frats,
Ben