Originally Posted by
LeeFXDWG
ERJ, perhaps you might want to come up with another sign on. You get zero for that one.
Anyway, I was a vol-furlough hired in 1998. Yes, I did what most of the wimps on this board and others would never do, I walked away. Never sure if I'd come back, and if I did, it would be on the same terms, my terms.
I have enjoyed all the CAL folks I've flown with to date (must not have flown with you).
Now, under the CAL proposal, I, who never was, never would be furloughed, would have been placed behind Yost (2011 hire I believe). YGTBSM.
Dude, get a life and a clue. The SLI process has finished from the pilots standpoint. The arbiters will come up with the final answer.
My recommendation to you is to keep it well out of the cockpit regardless of who you fly with. That's what I do. It does nothing constructive with regards to our daily mission.
If you bring this process up with folks in the cockpit, then your CRM skills are definitely in question.
Leave it on the jetway and do your job. And don't engage guys/gals that have been sh*t on well more than you'd understand.
And, all the "furloughs" working at CAL are not still furloughed/not recalled. I got my recall offer in Jan. Flying a 737 in IAH works for me....so I declined. You got to get your facts straight, son.
From an old grey-beard, sincerely meant, and hopefully received.
Lee
My old friend LeeMat and the other Lee
This may surprise you guys but on my small world of chugging across the North Atlantic the ISL is rarely discussed. In fact, I can't remember the last time it came up. Occasionally there is some discussion about new bases and position bidding. I think the average line guy knows it is out of our hands so why get your panties in a wad over what one side or another has presented.
I doubt that many of the prolific posters on this and other forums have ever been thru a major airline merger and experienced the post ISL issues. I was hired by Piedmont prior to the operational merger with USAir. What a fun couple of years followed.
The ISL will be what it is. The real concern for you younger guys is what kind of airline will be here 5 or 10+ years from now. My story at AAA was ugly. Hopefully all your careers will have a better trajectory.
Mike
2005
LCAL 756