Originally Posted by
Benwarren
Pilot64 golfer-
The 5 is just in Guam. Are you not watching the vacancy bids. It won't happen overnight but all I see are UAL pilots bidding 737 ca. Thinking that will continue for years. You must really believe the bigger the better, but the bids are starting to show a different trend. Don't care who we merged with my position on SLI will always remain the same. Fair is fair whatever the situation is.
You're right. For you, it is only going to get worse. As UCH adds Guppies, parks 757's and generally expands into UAL bases, UAL pilots are going to bid them and also into your base. Did you expect otherwise?
In my case, there are over 100 DEN based CAL Captains on the 737. I couldn't bid it, yet the junior pilot on that is almost 4000 numbers junior to me. On the last bid, I didn't hold it by 700 numbers, as UAL pilots finally had access to those positions.
Was CAL going to open a Den base pre-merger? LAX? So you're ****ed about a handful of UAL pilots migrating above you in GUM, while literally hundreds of Cap bids were handed out pre-SLI in UAL bases to CAL pilots that should have never held them. You can both thank Pierce/Brucia but also make sure you hate them for what they did to this merger. Their fingerprints are all over it.
Scott