Originally Posted by
LAX Pilot
We have the same thing at United. If someone was hired in 1995 as a flight attendant, then as a pilot in 1999 they get credit for those years for pass travel, etc, but they weren't mainline pilots until they started at mainline, so their actual seniority is based on that.
The only difference, is that XJT aka COEX pilots were hired as CAL pilots 1995 not FA. Just because they operated under Express doesn't change the fact that they were still CAL seniority pilots. The confusion comes when COEX pilots, while still at COEX, were intermingled with of the street pilot into CAL, and during transition period of followthrough to strictly of the street hiring. A similar situation exists in AA, and DAL, with AE and Comair, and Mesaba pilots. UA has never experienced followthrough contracts, and perhaps it may cause some confusion.