Originally Posted by
ReserveDog
I don't spend much time on this forum, but the CAL whining about "super seniority" in this thread got me out of the wood work. I was hired at UAL in 1996. I was integrated with CAL 1998 hires. Tell me again how I got super seniority? These pilots are mostly younger and all were hired after me and will now be senior to me for the rest of my career. Yet, I'm not whining about how CAL screwed us. We ALL got screwed in our own special way, that's what makes this SLI even remotely fair. Get over it.
Listen man, you're going to say what you're going to say, and we'll say what we're going to say, but if you even remotely think that this SLI thing was argued and won on solid arguments and merits you're off you're rocker. This was about ALPA from the get go and just be thankful you worked for the airline with the larger pilot group. Had you not ALPA would have screwed you over with the same vigor as the CAL side got screwed.
Having said that, those same guys hired on in 98 you are complaining about were able to hold 756 CA, what position were you holding the day before the SLI award?
This was the most egregious SLI "award" in the history of the airlines and you know it and I know it. As for the get over it comment....easy for the windfall side to say huh? I'll do what I believe is the right thing to do....not what you believe.