Originally Posted by
HuggyU2
So, back to my original question. In fact, I'll condense it:
Once these pilots leave this temporary fill in job at Avianca... and if they get hired by a major US carrier... will ALPA / SWAPA / APA allow them to join the union?
These scabs are NOT going to apply to a US carrier. They are all min 10,000 hour pilots with management and TRI/TRE certificates. They will all just stay in the expat community doing contracts in China or wherever the highest pay is where they can make 300K+. Why would they ever start over at the bottom of a US carrier. The focus shouldn’t be on these guys but on Boeing for allowing and endorsing these guys to fly for Avianca. Remember that Boeing denies they are employees of Boeing, even though these pilots represent themselves as Boeing, wear Boeing logo shirts, have Boeing IDs, get iPads and all other professional supplies from Boeing. Boeing should be punished and called out on this in every way.