Originally Posted by
akulahunter
Sadly, still better than today where you can go from amazing to food stamps in a week. Also, if the entire industry was that way, there aren't enough low time pilots to fly ALL the planes. That hiring strategy would only work for so long...
You guys keep saying hired by different airlines.
Ideally ALPA would do the hiring with airline input and you are placed on a master seniority list. At that point you’d bid for a vacancy, say
FEDEX MEM 777 CA as your first choice and Mesa ORD CRJ200 FO as your last choice. The pay rates for equipment would be different but otherwise the contract and work rules would be the same. During vacancy bids you would be able to other fleets and if your seniority holds it.
Now, Lets say United needed to furlough 1,000 Pilots is where it would get tricky if there aren’t 1000 vacancies elsewhere. Preventing a massive training bubble across all airlines while also furloughing those most junior on the master seniority list even if they aren’t necessarily at united.
That would be the ideal setup that way it wouldn’t matter who you work for because you actually work for ALPA, you just happen to be holding Delta NYC 717 CA right now. You don’t have to worry if you are hitching your cart to today’s winner and tomorrow’s goat.