This is why I said the other post was dumb.
The statements over simplified for anyone that started post 2013.

INC tried to make the XJT side more profitable.
The proposed way to do it was to have the XJT guys vote out their union which would allow a merge of the seniority lists by DOH.

The reasoning was because,
1) by the XJT contracts, the XJT pilots were too expensive for the aircraft that were being flown
2)you can’t merge a union and non-union seniority list

Let’s not forget that CC was not the CEO when the buy happened. He knew it wouldn’t work financially for either company, but when he took over it was his job make things happen.

Of course that was voted down bc there was no way XJT was going to vote out a union and take a $10/hr pay cut just to get a seniority list merge.

SO after all of that fell through and COVID happened,
UA bought XJT at their( still) high pay rates and let subohd drive them into the ground after promised contract negotiations.
That 10k per year that the senior CA’s made from 2013-2020 (70k over 7 years) will be lost in 7-8 months of not being employed now that UA shut XJT down.

It’s a huge bummer. I understand and empathize with both sides of that table.
Maybe hindsight was 20/20?
Would the XJT guys have been better off in 2020 being merged with OO which would have created a 7000 pilot “super regional”?
I don’t know, maybe, maybe not.

What we do know now is that any of these guys will be starting over at the bottom of the list at commutair, if they even open hiring up.

We also know that getting ****ed off at other pilots isn’t going to solve a damn thing.
The whole situation blows.
I wish everyone could just give it a rest.