Originally Posted by
John Carr
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
Ermm, OK. United had a J4J program. It was called Jets For Jobs. I really don't care whether or not USAirways started the program but United had a program called Jets For Jobs - I know because I got a job with SkyWest under the program. I misremember a lot of stuff nowadays but that isn't one of them.
As far as Guppy Killer stickers, they were definitely out there - not urban legend. Not a frequent sighting but they existed. They weren't specific to any regional. No one here has implied that they were the sole domain of Republic pilots, but there was at least one Republic pilot who had the sticker on his bag according to a 2007 post by
Joey Meatballs (post #3 on the thread I've linked)
. http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/hangar-talk/16936-where-can-i-find-some-good-flight-case-stickers.html
I believe
Joey Meatballs because I've also seen the Guppy Killer sticker.
Another old thread with a Guppy Killer sighting:
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/re...esa-737-a.html
I suppose those '80 for 80' stickers that I saw a couple of times also had no meaning?
It is what it is, but let's not rewrite the past like United's J4J didn't exist or that Guppy Killer and 80 for 80 stickers didn't exist. They did. Just like United's TORQUE pins existed.