Originally Posted by
oncloud
As stand alone Carriers, EVERYTHING a Pilot gets is based on his "relative seniority" within the company.
Weekends off, Christmas vacations, getting off of reserve, upgrading to Captain...the list goes on.
Slotting someone in as you say is trying to give relief for a stagnant career at the Original US Airways and your back to the same thing as DOH.
Y'all remember when United and US Airways were going to merge? United had 2 year upgraded Captains on their United Shuttle Ops...that would have been even uglier than this merger.
Ask the US Airway guys how their career was going before the merger.
In defense of the East gents they should of had fences for their international AND widebody flying for say 10-15 years.
I too am experiencing stagnation..probably be an FO for 25-30 years due to 2 mergers/acquisitions/buyouts....so I can definitely empathize with them!...but I/you also have to keep it real
You forget that the east had the top 10% of the Nicolau all to themselves and a 5 year wide body fence. Nicolau decided that the furloughed usairways guys had no reasonable expectation of returning to usairways given the companies position at the time of merger. That is why furloughed east pilots went to the bottom, the large numbers of east pilots quitting and going to other airlines including awa is proof positive The furloughed east pilots themselves had no expectations
P.S. The beasties refuse to admit that the 2005 merger is the reason we both exist today, for some reason the believe their success is independent of the 2005 merger.