Originally Posted by Coto Pilot

The United contract 2000 had no furlough protection, simply put the company could not furlough pilots on the seniority list. United ALPA made a decision to allow the company to furlough as many as they wanted. ALPA made that decision. DAL ALPA had the same language and chose to fight the furloughs and won a protracted arbitration getting many of their pilots their jobs back with retro pay. The bond distribution that was mentioned previously was given to ALPA to decide who was to participate. ALPA chose an arbitrary date, and if you weren't back on the property by that date you got nothing, I returned 10 days to late, this was tens of thousands of dollars per pilot that we didn't get. A number of airlines agreed to drop the limits on flight hours per month so the furloughs would be reduced, not United ALPA. United ALPA pilots voted overwhelming in favor of a contract that introduced the first B scale to a major airline in a generation with the inclusion of LOA 25. All of these things were done by United ALPA, not the company. If you weren't there you can't possibly appreciate how we were treated by our ALPA brothers and sisters. All of us that took advantage of the furlough fund appreciated having it, but that doesn't come close to correcting the damage that United ALPA did to their furloughed pilots, ALPA, not the company.