Originally Posted by
svergin
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.
And those way out of seniority Captains heavily distorted seniority in places like Den. 7400 is still holding den cap and driving to work, while there are lots of us stuck far senior to that but with no bids and no bumping rights on the outside looking in. It really did bastardize the process, which really hasn't even remotely started to sort itself out. Some won, some lost. Fine. But let's at least be honest about what really happened.
Thanks for your post, svergin.