Originally Posted by
PhantomHawk
I’m fairly certain that UAL dictates the terms. And the COMPANIES (plural of company) are not step-sisters. There seems to be a high likelihood of some sort of merge down the road, but for now the two aren’t associated with each other.
I define step-Sisters as those who have one parent that is the same. United owns over 49% of CommutAir and over 49% of ExpressJet. And, who owns the rest of ManaAir? A little research will show the rest of the ownership is also tightly entwined. (It isn’t like ExpressJet’s relationship to SkyWest, where SkyWest considered ExpressJet to be the ugly, estranged sibling.)
At CommutAir, a pilot must have flown either 1,000 hours as Pilot-in-Command -OR- 3,000 hours total in service to CommutAir. Since CommutAir is hiring street captains, a CommutAir pilot can go to United, theoretically, in just over a year after Captain IOE or just over 15 months after being hired there. Their record is just over two years from doh at CommutAir to doh at doh at United. Why would CommutAir’s pilots want to give that up in a merger of seniority lists?