Originally Posted by AirMicronesia

And now everybody on this forum understands the arrogance of Legacy United “Brain Surgeons”. For the folks that haven’t lived it, this is how legacy united pilots think. Everybody who doesn’t think United is the best was “rejected” by United. You would have to have been retarded to choose United over CAL in the ‘05-‘07 timeframe. United was headed towards a third furlough and bankruptcy. Look at the SEC filings.

They were lucky that Continental bought them. “On March 31, 2013, United merged with and into Continental, with Continentalcontinuing as the surviving corporation of the Merger and as a wholly-owned subsidiary of UAL.”





On the off chance you are not familiar with why Legacy United has the industry moniker of “Brain Surgeon”, it’s because they bestowed this upon themselves. During the attempted acquisition of Frontier in 1986, the United MEC started that United pilots were “Brain Surgeons” while the Frontier pilots were merely “General Practitioners”. Nothing has changed since then. There was even a Legacy United Pilot given a 30 day unpaid holiday for screaming “SCAB” at an ‘05 hire Legacy Continental pilot in IAD. This Brain surgeon was so outrageous that he screamed this repeatedly and long enough on the train and then up the escalator that the Captain was able to call the FODM. The rant was caught on a recorded line! Lol! The ‘05 hire was not a scab btw. The LUAL furlough surgeon was simply upset that he didn’t become a narrow body captain straight from cashier at Walmart.

*sniff*