Originally Posted by
A320fumes
..everybody at my seniority or higher was a Captain for over 2 years before the CAL/UAL merger was announced.
1) Not true. We "had been" Captains but were FOs when the merger happened. I was one of them.
2) We had pilots WAY out of seniority in left seats at CAL because we had a terrible base structure and a horrible reserve system.
I'm tired of the "we can all hold Captain" when in fact we all know what the real story was on those out-of-seniority Captains. And none of us were Captains in DEN, ORD, LAX, or SFO.