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Old 01-24-2014 | 05:00 PM
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skillett
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Originally Posted by rjcaptsean
The E-175 program sounds a lot like the Desert Sun issue we had a while back. Risley handpicked the guys to go fly those Fokkers and operated it as a different company (so they were essentially off the seniority list). Then when it failed, he brought them all back without a loss of seniority. Didn't they do that again with Freedom Air? Was there any action taken by ALPA for the seniority issues?
Yes, the only way to make this fair with the fence Mesa wants to put up is to only allow FO's to upgrade to the Emb and be the check airman training captains.