Originally Posted by
Knotcher
How do you know Ben would have been up in arms if DEN came up with this resolution? Do you really believe every displaced LUAL just smiled and couldn't have cared less if his local council was advocating minimizing displacements on his behalf? Of course not. And btw most guys are not on this board anyway so the lack of their gripes on this board does not infer that they are 100% content with their situation.
Yes as union we are looking out for the greater good, but we also have large vested interest in things that greatly impact us individually, nothing at all wrong with that. Do you cry every time someone on the news dies? After all it is someone else's father, mother, daughter, etc. Of course not, unless it was someone close to you. Guys in IAH have different issues than guys in ORD, guys in ORD have different issues than LAX, and so on. Not really a valid argument to say nobody cares until it happens to them.
Agree
I'm going on what I have seen out of Ben and the way he has behaved during his tenure in IAH during the merger.
I would bet good money that it's not lost on Ben that if they put out a DEN A320 bid that LCAL pilots will be able to bid it as the LUAL grandfather rights expire. The fact that they are TDY'ing into DEN on a fairly regular basis means that a bid will most likely be triggered per the contract soon. That didn't seem to register a complaint from the IAH LEC.
I fully understand that things don't hit home until they happen to you. HOWEVER, "you" is ALL of us. Thinking that IAH is it's own separate entity is myopic in my opinion. The sooner we start thinking of ourselves as one pilot group, the better. The way I look at it, ANY time a group gets money from the company, it's a good thing. ANY time someone gets bumped or furloughed, whether LCAL or LUAL, it's a bad thing. Personally I think extending grandfather rights out to 24 months would be a bad thing for ALL of us. It would allow the company to retrain much more easily and cost effectively, which I contest will INCREASE the bumps in the future. The beancounters will plug the reduced retraining costs into the equation and see that they are able to bump much more freely with that in place.