Originally Posted by
hindsight2020
This thread is good stuff. As an aspiring accidental airline pilot, I'm learning a hell of a lot good stuff about UA reserve. Sounds like you guys need to fix the SC abuse; it almost sounds like a LC-in-name-only system. One of my bigger motivations for scoping out interest in United over places like Southwest was the differences in reserve scheduling and utilization. This SC crap kinda negates that advantage.
Hiring like they are now, new hires are off reserve fairly quickly I think. Plus, I can't imagine SWA doesn't have something similar to SC so that might be a wash. SWA has never furloughed, but then they'll never have 777/787s either. From this side of the fence (UAL) it seems a no brainier to me, but then again, if UAL goes belly up in 10 years because of mismanagement....