Originally Posted by
Merle Haggard
I hope the MEC and the Company have been watching what's happening at United. That, I hope, is the type of response that will happen here if they ignore the pilots and do as they please.
This was posted to the UA forum shortly after that TA was released
“Pre merger there would have been ZERO United pilots picking up any trips during negotiations. If they had their schedules would have been posted behind the glass of the ALPA message boards for all to see. Now we have a new group of pilots bragging about how they get 140 hours of pay every month and fly down to 10 days off and the TA will hurt their chances to keep flying as much as possible on their days off.
That is the reason we have the current TA. We don’t need improvements to reserve, etc because the company knows they can just add some PP and guys are falling all over themselves to grab those trips, even complaining when they can’t fly OT.
You can blame the NC all you want but this pilot group’s daily actions are the blame.”
Currently we are headed down the same path and we have earned it as a pilot group. You don’t get what you have earned. You get what you are willing to fight for. Up to this point we have failed to show any fight.