Originally Posted by
Andy
Thanks for the clarification - I thought I was misremembering again (oldtimers disease). I don't remember our regional partners offering many J4Js except for SkyWest.
Originally Posted by
cadetdrivr
The regionals were REQUIRED by one of the various UAL/ALPA agreements to offer a jets-for-jobs of sorts (furloughed UA pilots as regional new-hires, but on second year pay) as a condition for each regional airline that wanted to fly 70 seat RJs.
J4J was a SPECIFIC agreement with USAir it's feeders. NOT UAL.
UAL/UAX was simply an agreement that the UAX carriers would hire furloughed UAL pilots into the jet equipment, with UALPA picking up the difference between year 1 and year 2 pay for the pilot's first year on property.
And IIRC, there wasnt any "push back" or whatever else. That probably holds as much urban legend street cred as the infamous "guppy killer" sticker EVERYONE has claimed to have seen
