Originally Posted by
Roy Biggins
How many time do you need to come over here and say the same thing over and over? You have literally no idea what United will do, or won’t do. You don’t even know what will happen tomorrow. If you’ve been in this industry as long as you say you have, then you know that you literally have no idea what’s around the corner. You have your best guess….that/s it. Give this pompous know it all routine a rest.
Why do a partnership and get a bunch of JFK gates if there is a merger planned? Also why convert 48 MAX 10s to MAX-9s and get those deliveries going if there is a merger planned? Why accelerate a bunch of 2030 planned A-321 NEO purchases to 2026? Why do all this if there is an imminent merger? The only thing I've heard to dispute this is "management always lies" and "you don't know anything". Well neither of those are facts, they are opinions. Its pretty clear that United is charting a course that doesn't include buying an airline or parts of an airline
Also I have as much right to "come over here" (whatever that means) as you do. This board is to discuss JetBlue. Its not the "Jetblue pilots forum". Its about anything regarding Jetblue. I'm sure you have your own internal pilot's forum. I'm sure its full of the rumors that Jetblue is imminently going to be acquired by United. I've been hearing it since 2019.
Here's a whole thread from 2019 about the impending UA/JB merger and how the SLI would even be done.
Originally Posted by
BunkerF16
It's cat/class and longevity (which leads to relative seniority scenarios, but not directly).
So to set it correctly its:
Category/class (Widebody vs narrow body)
Longevity. (#1 NB CA at United has how many YOS? #1 CA at JB has how many YOS?) That's where the multiplier would come into play to give the additional YOS for UA (or any top 3 guys) some benefit before the JB guys get plugged in.
CA/FO mean nothing. The seniority list would be ghost bid so that each pilot would be placed where they COULD hold, not what they actually sit at the time of the merger.
So you're right, JB and UA aren't the same. Which is why there would be a fencing off of WBs before JB pilots would be integrated.
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