Originally Posted by
cadetdrivr
Let me take a wild guess: you were not a junior pilot at UAL during any the furloughs in the last 10 years?
I'm sorry, but being furloughed pilot after 9/11 (ME), the scope lift, and all the crap that went with, what are you trying to say above?
Originally Posted by
Andy
It was an LOA in the premerger UA contract. You will find somewhere in the LOA the exact wording 'Jets For Jobs'.
It's a fairly minor point as to the name of the program, but it required the regionals to hire x number of UAL furloughees for each new aircraft added. And yes, some of the regionals played games with the furloughees.
Right. I'm NOT trying to get into a peeing contest over it with you. I just don't remember that SPECIFIC NAME in the document, like it was at USAir. Or the original NWA "across the table"/CPZ agreement. Which contained SPECIFIC fleet, seats, flow up-down, etc etc etc
Originally Posted by
Andy
Can you name a single UAL furloughee that was a DEC CA at GoJets? I never heard about that offer, and I doubt any other furloughees heard of such a thing. I've kept in touch with a lot of furloughees and no one ever mentioned DEC positions for any US airline. There were some furloughees who took DEC positions overseas but that's an entirely different animal than we're discussing here.
You are correct, I worded that WRONG. Not DEC's. But Gojets WAS hiring a lot of pretty qualified furloughed guys, simply because they knew they'd have upgrades quick and wanted the experience. So again, you are correct, NOT a DEC. But of the guys that took advantage, I believe the last went back either late 2012/early 2013.
Originally Posted by
Andy
I interviewed at SkyWest. There were ~a dozen of us furloughees interviewing the day I was there. We were even required to bring our logbooks, which the interviewers reviewed prior to our interviews.
Was that after furlough 1 or 2? I thought I specifically remember that on the initial agreement there was no interview process.