Originally Posted by
FriendlyPilot
No CAL wasn't hiring, because there was no "CAL" anymore. Don't conflate management's decision to hire and place those pilots on the former CAL side of the still separate operation with "CAL was hiring". That's a gross exaggeration and a SLI "talking point". It didn't work as the Arbitrators saw through it.
Call it whatever you want but they needed pilots to staff the 737 deliveries that were coming.