Originally Posted by
Sunvox
To me the facts show that any expectation of "organic growth" at CAL absent a merger have been shown by reality and history to have been zero.
You mean shrinking every year since 2006 then "magically" starting to grow when merged with United in 2010?
Oh wait, the merger didn't happen until 2013 and CAL just naturally expanded into DEN, LAX, and ORD because they would have done that all along.
And all this time UAL had 3,000 "extra" pilots and for some reason only 1,400 of them are on furlough. I guess management just wanted to have "spare" pilots for cancellations.
The other one I love is that all the extra UAL bases aren't necessary and make UAL have extra pilots.
So UAL has 7 bases. LAX, SFO, SEA, DEN, ORD, JFK, IAD. <--- Deemed too many by CAL Merger Committee which is why UAL has extra pilots.
CAL has 7 bases. GUM, EWR, CLE, IAH, ORD, DEN, LAX. <--- somehow with CAL they don't have too many pilots.