Originally Posted by
hummingbear
Roughly 1/3. The company had sent out over 2800 furlough notices, but had threatened nearly 4,000, and on at least one occasion, hinted at nearly 50%; so how big you consider the “lifeline group” to be depends on who you believe.
One of the issues no voters point to with the UAL contract is that it sought to address issues beyond just limiting furloughs- like preventing downgrades/displacements- which resulted in certain pockets of our ranks benefiting from this contract out of seniority order. Yes voters will point out that it is always possible to do better than others out of seniority order, so they don’t consider it a concern.
Our agreement passed with less than 60% in favor, so you’ll find a lot of disparate opinion on whether it was the right call.
I understand the ire when one compares what they get with what somebody junior is getting (if more). But, sans an agreement, and resulting furloughs wouldn't
ALL remaining pilots have felt the suck? Especially since you are relatively wide body heavy compared to say Delta( narrow body gonna recover more quickly. An AA 777 and a DL 350lax to SYD at same time have a combined total of 30 peeps .Yikes...that sucks a loaf factor of 5%. Yea I know ...but ....but...cargo! Until and or if we remake ourselves , we are all 3 pax carrier pilots.
Sorry, still not understanding the "life line eating caviar " when they are mostly getting 35 hours(unless I am misunderstanding)
Deuces..as an outsider I'll prolly never understand UAL in light of I cant understand some of the folks at my own airline. Such us life.