Originally Posted by
sleeves
Then we agree. MOU 14 was a mistake. It gave the company relief for the benefit of a few. It is not semantics. I do not believe the part about the 737-500 being separate as they were already a single base at LCAL, we still use the LCAL certificate. It is still a single fleet at SWA. BTW the base name is 737 not 737ng as it is at Delta.
At any rate it does not matter in the UPA if the base was previously open or not. Section 8-H is all that was needed and a special few were given a special deal. Now a lot of people are gonna be wronged if they don't get it too.
So you think MOU 14 was a mistake (as I do, and have said about 25 times here) and rather than learn from it you want to do it again? That makes no sense. You realize that the group that you are claiming are being "wronged" by MOU are the very people that got their Captain bids in a suspect way out of seniority, right? I'm not going to bother to rehash THAT argument again here, but I think if you live by the special deal then you should be prepared to die by the special deal.
Lastly, as far as the 737-500's being a separate fleet, it doesn't matter what SWA does. It only matters what the POI at UAL does. Example, making UCH fly the 756 and 76T fleets as separate for so long. I'm just passing along what I heard during 737 School in IAH. I have no idea whether it's accurate or not, but I'm assuming the training center would have more knowledge about the situation than you do