Originally Posted by
Lambourne
Oh now that is uncalled for
Whacka whacka whacka.
Just out of curiosity, the rumor mill is pretty dry here at UAL. Are there any CAL leaks of info? I am afraid we will do the death spiral with the USAPAites.
If it is to be a UAL/CAL scenario I certainly hope we can move about the integration in a much more civilized manner than U/HP and DL/NW have so far. Keeping my fingers crossed that a fair and equitable agreement can be arranged and the pilots are able to recognize fair and equitable and not use methods such as USAPA to divide the group.
Good luck to everyone, merger or no merger. Also, can we please get the CAL management and a combo of the contracts? I understand CAL has some DH to Europe for the bunkies as DH is only paid at half. We have some decent benefits remaining, I am sure you guys have many also. If we could combine the best parts of both then perhaps we might have a contract worth working for.
Let's see if I can address your stuff, as I understand it. The latest that is floating around here - reported by Reuters too - is CAL exploring an 'alliance' with American Airlines, while engaging in merger talks with United, who is also in talks with US Airways. Blah. I don't quite like the sound of any of that, but I don't write the news stories, I just report them.
Brief correction to the statement about DH. DH is now paid at 100%. It was not paid at 100% for a while (under POS '02) but snapped back to 100% last year. If there had to be a marriage with UAL, CONTRACTUALLY the only things I personally would like to see is adopting your work rules and our pay scales. I am skeptical that we would be so fortunate, but that doesn't mean I won't rally hard for it. Again, nothing personal but the rumors of how the seniority could be integrated spell disaster for my career, being quite junior at CAL already. A full 1/3 of our pilots have only a few years on property and have a sneaking suspicion that we could be thrown under the bus by our peers or the UAL MEC. Don't misinterpret my kicking and screaming over the merger talks as an insult to UAL, I just don't want to be furloughed and/or junior for the next 20 years.
Who cares what my opinion is, but I haven't found any combo yet that actually benefits anyone at CAL right now. Our leadership knows this, so the only thing we can hope for is the DAL/NWA thing not passing regulatory approval. Standing alone, someone will fall, probably sooner rather than later. I would prefer stiff competition for a while, rather than tethering multiple companies to each other that are all weathering a brutal economic storm. I am confident in CAL's ability to emerge near the top, as long as no mergers are allowed to happen. Eh, we will see.
PacMan is going to be taken down. It was a joke, but I realize not all share my twisted sense of humor.