Originally Posted by
ugleeual
If we merge, which I doubt, the top 25% of the integration list will be primarily United with some senior JB sprinkled in… middle 50% will be about even, and bottom 25% will lean more United with junior JB sprinkled in with more towards the bottom. Bottom line is nobody happy except the top 25% at United and the handful of senior JB pilots who get sprinkled into seniority’s that can hold WB CA (with some minor fences)… most ****ed off will be the United pilots in the 50-70% seniority range at the time of snapshot… they’ll be upset on how they merge in with JB pilots who will probably be junior to them in total seniority at each company.
Whatever the case we do t have a say…
agree with most of your post. Especially “we don’t have a say” in the merger happening.
JetBlue started flying in February of 2000. We have a lot of pilots that began their careers at the combined United well before that. I would also hope that the “minor fence” looked like an insurmountable wall when it came to widebodies.
I can’t imagine going through a merger just to get some gates in JFK for SFO and LAX premium traffic. But that goes back to “we don’t have a say”