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.
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.
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.
Andy,
I was furloughed in January 2010. I don't know if GoJets was part of the J4J program. They were hiring at the time and another furloughed guy called me and said GoJets was offering a left seat during the interview. I faxed in a resume and got a phone call within 30 minutes. I showed up to the interview a week later to check it out. There was an ATA guy in the training department that came and said hello. The interview was with a young guy that said he didn't have any questions for me and was I available to start soon. I asked about the The left seat and he insisted I was interviewing for a right seat position. I told him I was under the impression that they were hiring DECs or at least had some sort of Lance Captain program. He said that was no longer an option that was being considered. I said I wasn't interested in an FO position. A week later, I got an offer letter in the mail and a study package.
I never followed up with a question to ask what the offer was for. I know a handful of guys that went and they were used as a sort of lance captain until their seniority could hold captain.