Originally Posted by
Dave Fitzgerald
UAL bought Pan AM London assets when they went under. Pilots came with the deal as did the 727 London TDY deals. The rest of the pilots were offered preferential interviews.
Read between the lines just a bit. Foreign airlines, Chinese example, some are not unionized. So, no pilots or interviews. But if a bankrupt carrier sold assets to UAL with a union, in the past, some jobs have come with them, as in Pan Am London, or interviews.
Probably wouldn't come to pass, but not out of the question. Especially if they have a pilot union, you can be the question will be asked.
The “assets” being discussed here, like the UA A319s from China Southern, are leased airplanes. The deal is with the leasing company and not the airline.
If you walk up to the Hertz counter you deal with Hertz, not the guy who returned the car yesterday.
In the case of Pan Am, UAL bought turn-key operations from an operating carrier. The LHR deal occurred in 1990 prior to the Pan Am bankruptcy and subsequent shutdown in ‘91.
Big difference.