Originally Posted by
TheMitigator
Exactly when did I "self-profess" to be an SME?
Originally Posted by
TheMitigator
When the captain bids started being unfilled, they started moving the vacancies to where pilots actuallly want to be based. That will never, ever, ever, ever happen again. Humongous concession, the effect of which we will never even really be able to measure. Everyone has gotten "retro fever" and is turning blind eyes to huge red flags. You think this wont effect you because you are already in the seat/base you want to be in but it will undoubtedly stunt the growth below you.
Its also selling short the future pilots in a huge way, pilots who are forced to upgrade will inevitably be forced into bases they dont want to be in, transferring out to the base where they want to be as a captain will take years instead of the months that it does for their classmates.
A yes vote is selling out yourselves and future pilots. Full stop.
Originally Posted by
TheMitigator
Guess you quickly scanned my post, looked for what you were looking for and completely missed the point on that one. Just like you did with the TA apparently. They wont be able to transfer as easy as every other pilot has for the last 30 years.
Originally Posted by
TheMitigator
I don’t have access to the numbers anymore but you do. I know that it was a fact before I left and that it’s even discussed on the ALA podcast in April or June.
And, maybe you aren’t losing peoples to FDX and UPS BECAUSE THEY STOPPED HIRING! Lol
UPS is even offering early retirement!
You voted in an objectively sub-par contract and if the management over there weren’t “kind enough” to go above and beyond that joke of a snap up clause you’d be even further behind. You KNOW it’s bad when mgmt agrees to give you more money when they don’t have to! I don’t think you want to be in this thread claiming to be any kind of authority because less than a year ago you proved you aren’t. Everyone with internet access can see you made a bad deal and were defending it! Laughable.
I chose the SME term over 'know it all' to soften the comment, as all of my posts questioning your credentails are considered by some as personal attacks. They're not; they are to establish that you have very little first hand experience as a United pilot. And frankly, you've done nothing to show that you have much piloting experience.
For you to suggest that pilots here are selling newhires down the river for a retro check is frankly very insulting. I don't care about section 3 - I have always wanted QOL gains. And I don't see what you describe as a major concession to be more than a very minor concession in exchange for much greater QOL gains.
If you softened your predictions from proclamations of certitiude to something more along the lines of 'likely', 'possibly', or 'I expect', I would find less reason to question your credentials. Instead, you choose to post as if you have perfect insight on the future for United pilots.
Getting back to the topic at hand, rather than make this all about you. This TA will pass and likely to be in effect for the next six years, warts and all. No one has rebutted my statement that this contract has the most QOL gains in the last
25 30 years. Given that reality, is there any airline that currently has a signifcantly better contract?