Originally Posted by
uaav8r
Ok, "Hope", I'm dying to know...Who are you and what is your motivation here. Are you are a mid 90's LUAL hire like many of us here? From your "way out in left field" posts it wouldn't surprise me if you were an angry furloughee, LCAL pilot, or JP himself. It's obvious that you hate JH with a passion. He's no messiah IMO either. So, who do you think would do or would have done a better job? Earn some credibility here...Enlighten us....
This thread is full of emotions and to me seems to leave a few things out....
The company will always seek to operate at lower cost/less restrictive when two employee groups with different contracts are involved. Thus the build up of the CAL side at the expense of the UAL pilots pre UPA. To submit that JP and Jeff were in cahoots is pretty naive.
Pre SLI/UPA it was JP's task to represent the CAL pilots, not a future combined pilot group.
JH recognized the importance of completing and getting a new joint contract to stop the whipsawing of the two pilot groups. If there could have been more gold at the end of the rainbow is something we'll never know.
As a Capt. with 15 years+ to go I am glad that we have a contract that will be the foundation for a joint UAL pilot group that we can improve on substantially at the next cycle.