Originally Posted by
rickair7777
To clarify...you don't have a right to good career expectations at this time, at the expense of other pilots. You have a right to the CAL flying as far as I'm concerned. But I don't think you have a right to displace a single ASA or SKW pilot (even one hired last week) if the branded flying goes away. That's the crux of the issue...any furloughs due to branded should happen before any integration. I think 99.9% of the SKW pilots will hold the line on that. Maybe your alpa brothers at ASA will willingly throw some of their young under the bus and help you out...go to one other their ATL LEC meetings and make a proposal to that effect.
I do think that the XJT should not trade away the branded without guaranteed recall rights (with longevity) into XJT, SKW, or ASA whichever has openings first.
And SKW pilots don't have the right to great career expectations at the expense of
our pilots. XJT would furlough pilots from its own list then SKW gets the benefits of hiring and upgrades from the "new" frames? Doesn't sound like a fair deal to me.
Look, XJT pilots don't want to be "rescued" by SKW. SKW is the one who butted into our business, and undercut our contract with CAL at our expense. Want XJT bad enough? SKW has to sacrifice something too.