Originally Posted by
Mitch Rapp05
LUAL parked the entire fleet of 737's and replaced the flying with RJ's AFTER the pilots gave up scope. Parking of the 737's was all about surviving. This whole "parked for the merger" talk is missing the FACT that l-UAL pilots had essentially given the company the green light to outsource flying.
In all honesty, I was truly hoping that LUAL pilots would have been the more adamant group about holding the line on scope in these last rounds of negotiations since they saw their careers decimated by incompetent management and scope relaxation ...but I digress.
Parked the entire fleet and replaced it with rj flying? You might want to talk to the bus drivers and ask them what happened to their flying after the guppies were parked.
In all honesty, I wish the cal mec would have been more adamant in upholding unionism. But then, nothing like three years to drive upgrades and promote a snapshot date.