Originally Posted by tallow

TSA has been p**sing off UAL ever since they agreed to take the XRs which is why we never got Aviate. The handwriting has been on the wall for this for a while. TSA management is a cluster and couldn't manage their way out of a paper bag. Ever since the only guy in management with a clue, KS, left for PSA the place has been crashing downhill. Because of this, there will be very few, if any TSA guys going to Gojet. We all want to get out of here. Conference call today was a joke and they had no real answers. Union sources are telling us negotiations are underway for a soft landing for TSA guys that want to go to Expressjet. Supposedly UAL is really pushing this to help crew the XRs. We're being told the bulk of the flying will be transferred after August with a few planes leaving by May, then a pause in transfers until fall.

Rumor I heard was they are working on a package for people to stay until the planes leave and then got to Expressjet. UAL needs to keep the planes flying all summer and without significant financial incentives and some kind of assurance of a job, people aren't going to wait and this will be a ghost town soon. I don't see Expressjet getting all these aircraft transferred over the next year without some of the TSA guys going with them. I expect most of the TSA guys to go to LCCs, some to other regionals and very, very few to Gojet. Mostly the old timers who don't have a lot of time left and don't want to leave St Louis.

We'll see what happens but this is gonna be another TSA cluster until the planes get transferred.