Originally Posted by
Itsajob
The argument wasn’t over jumpseat, but the seats in the back. The issue is that passenger seats are sold by United Airlines and that a 30 year employee shouldn’t get bumped by a regional new hire. You can’t go to Mesa or Express Jet and buy a ticket from point A to B. That is through the parent company. Basically, those are United routes, the seats are sold by United Airlines, and often times the airplane itself is owned by United. The various regionals are simply subcontractors paid to cover certain routes. It would be a hard sell to demand priority on another companies jumpseat, but the seats in the back are United seats, and as such United employees should be listed SA1, and the subcontractors falling below that mark.
Mainline pilots keep saying this... For the regionals that operate only for UAX, yes the planes are owned by UAL. However for other regionals like Republic and Skywest, we own our own A/C. They ARE NOT UAL property, they are property of Republic and Skywest, 100%. We should not be bumped off of our own airplane by a mainline pilot who flying for United Airlines. United Express is a brand name not a company. When United has 100% stake in a given company, then yeah they can have priority. Otherwise, mainline gets priority for their metal, and we get priority on our own. It's the agreement and the very least mainline can do is honor that.