Originally Posted by
Ben Salley
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
The DELIVERIES, yes. But that's only half the story. The parking of airplanes can/does change overnight, as UAL demonstrated in 2008 with their 100 airplane announcement. Up until that very day they were upgrading and training based on having those airplanes in the fleet. Who knows what either airline would have done as a standalone situation. I suspect both would have seen relatively flat capacity based on the rest of the industry, but again, that's just speculation.
Genuine question: what are your concerns about the staffing numbers and the combined CMS?
Lastly, I have zero beef with you 28% improvement up until 2010, though it appears that the only Captain seat you could have held was Guam, which was way out of the stovepipe. It's the 14% since then that is in question