Originally Posted by
Airsupport
uh,, thats what pinnacle thought when they bought us and gave us lots of planes while downsizing mesaba. Oh and we had a weak "flowthrough", (ask the furloughed dc9 captains here all about that) which was really a flow back since no one went up.
Flowthrough? Flowback? at PCL? There has never been any such thing.
Back in 2002, NWA/PCL opened up preferential hiring for furloughed NWA pilots. They had no super seniority and started at the bottom with everybody else.
Most were FO's/FE's with little time at mainline, the furloughs didn't go terribly deep.
There has never been a flowthrough/flowback provision on paper between the PCL and NWA MEC's. Ever.
The only reason any of those guys became captains is because thier seniority held the position and they bid it. Not because of a J4J type deal.