Originally Posted by
jsled
Now they like to take swipes at ol' UAL on this forum. Well, that's ok. The pay sucks now. Only 2.5 years until the contract though. What will UAL pay then? Only time will tell.
A swipe, if you call it that, needs to be taken in context and you frame that perfectly. The bashing, while not personalized, was laughing about your colleague's claim that UAL is attracting the best of the best, and it will be their last airline career interview.
Today's UAL is trailing the pack in many areas, your management wants to merge the airline, your union doesn't have contractual protections to protect what's left of a shattered career. I don't wish you any ill will but those are facts.
By the time you get a pay raise, what will that be, almost a decade of brining up the industry rear? Good luck guys I hope you can rape Tilton as bad as he has you. I just don't see UAL causing qualified applicants to trip over themselves to apply, there isn't anything there.
Originally Posted by
Lambourne
?????????? Do you cargo guys even have an idea as to the make up of the major carriers????? I can only imagine what the FDX crewroom must be like at night.
Yes, it's brutal working for a company that makes a billion per quarter, is able to afford the pilot contract, and has competent management. Aside from that we just brag about the new toys and places we went on vacation.
Originally Posted by
Lambourne
Oh yes the MD10. One man's trash......
Yep, the MD10, paid for and pays for itself several time each year, cool huh? Speaking of trash, I commercialed the other day on a UA 777, do you guys ever clean those things? Seriously, it was disgusting.