Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
Please read the document. Career Expectation doesn’t have anything to do with what you think or expect as a pilot. It’s a qualifier for narrowbody and widebody.
Right. "Career expectations" replaced Date of Hire in the Merger/Fragmentation Policy in the early '90s. It was pushed at the BoD by the United Pilots (the 900 lb. gorilla at the time) when there was a United/USAir merger (which eventually failed) in the wind. The sole reason for the change was to keep USAir pilots OUT of UAL widebody seats.
With two narrowbody airlines like AS and VX the term is meaningless.