Originally Posted by SEDPA

NO WINDFALL ??? Excuse me, but a windfall is a windfall ... a quote from your MC: "the Board integrated an unprecedented number of furloughed pilots". Unprecented for sure ... rarely in the histroy of ALPA integrations have furloughed pilots been integrated above active pilots ... three or four times to be exact out of hundreds of arbitrations. The ALPA policy change enabled it, the three arbs delivered it, and the CAL pilots paid for it ... your windfall. If it makes you feel any better, call it a gift. And it will keep on giving ... your turn comes when UCH buys a regional carrier that happens to have a large number of high-longevity furloughed RJ Captains on their list ... it will be your turn to donate to the windfall gift.

When I was furloughed, my career expectations were forever altered; they got re-calibrated when I finally got recalled. When I got recalled, I went to the bottom of the list until the next guy showed up, then I moved up. It's been that way for just about every ALPA furloughee in history. Why are the UAL furloughees special; why shouldn't they get treated like just about every other furloughee in ALPA histroy? Sure, no windfall. Enjoy the "gift".