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APC225
I hope they are not. As for me, as the PIC I don't even ask or try to figure out which legacy I'm flying with. We eventually talk about backgrounds and if I hear a LUAL or LCAL aircraft I engage that info as an aircraft flown, not what company it was flown for. It's a safety of flight issue to me. We're there to operate a piece of equipment from here to there. Some things are distractions to that. That's my choice. But as Colonel Nathan R Jessup said, I have that privilege.
That's where I am at as well. I don't have to fly with Scabs, as PIC, so that isn't an issue. Everyone else is from somewhere. It's like saying "you are from Kentucky." That's cool. So what.
Don't wish to offend, but wanted to know since it's ok to go off topic.....
I do have a question though as not a former L UAL person (former CAL). Is it (was it) the policy of UAL to hire their former in-terms with little to no experience? Just asking.... Does the in-ternship give you that much more leverage in the hiring process? Any difference between the hiring standards in the 90's for in-terns and today? I have flown with both sharp and not so sharp former interns and all I can really determine is just a lack of a breadth and depth of experience. Was this like the lawsuits that made UAL hire more women/minorities without the experience of their white-male competitors?