Originally Posted by
TFAYD
why do you need a consolidated list? All you need is to move the UA owned aircraft over to mainline and have UA pilots fly them.
Voila - no furlough at mainline.
that is never gonna happen but I don’t understand all these staple fantasies by mainline folks.
I really don’t get the staple argument either. Prior to the virus, if United had decided to take rj’s that they own to mainline, they probably would have just hired off the street rather than staple. The HR folks are big on picking who they want and wouldn’t want to give up their control over the interview process. Now if they suddenly decided to take everything in house, United pilots soon to be furloughed would train on them. Giving serious thought to how to spend your lottery millions is probably a better use of one’s time than worrying about mainline rj’s. It sounds like they are planning on a different business model after this. They have said that 50 seat flying will go away, but they haven’t said how. Do they plan on taking more flying back, do they think that they will get scope relief, or are they planning on a bankruptcy judge giving them what they want? We don’t know how it is going to work out, but it sounds like big changes are in the works.