Originally Posted by SaltyDog

No one is giving you up. Took a 75K paycut being displaced from left to right (disclaimer: I could have held left until till Jan 2010) if I wanted to bounce domiciles, but after the next round, no one will be a Capt any longer in my class. All of us will have gone from left to right. Then talked the better half into 80K in VLOA and sick bank returns, etc. That was a real interesting discussion. Point is, alot of folks gave, would have been cheaper for me to support a furlough fund, but believed better to support the MOU route that the EB/UPS chose to keep everyone on the property.
The margins for the volunteers are where I expected. Sorry folks gave more than they could manage though, especially the junior 300.
Supervisors. Yes, they indeed harm your career. Blame the IPA for doing a poor job of explaining the airline within the airline to you. It harms me too. They are very effective, they fly FAR's only. They have no contract to protect them. They are super reserves (the real ones actually,since absolutely no contractual limit on MEF) Scheduling can manage MEF all day long. Very easy to accomplish. Almost to a person, they are Captains and UPS sees no need for extra IPA Captains/F/O's when they have a ready force of Captains who can sit in either seat, fly with no limitation, and be readily managed to avoid contractual flying limits. Example: Before the 3 seaters were retired, they had Supervisor Captains qualified in all three seats. Know how effective it is to be able to plug and play 3 jobs for the real reserve managed and maniplulated MEF with one person instead of three IPA crewmembers? It was brilliant. If they doesn't sink in, then one is looking in too close and needs to look farther afield at their career. The airline within an airline serves UPS to not grow the IPA to cover their business needs. Supervisors will need fences to blend them in the IPA after we have the jobs. Protects both parties, much like DAL/NWA accomplished. It won't effect your F/O pay, or what seat you sit in (fences) and in long term, opens up the Captain positions since UPS will need to use IPA for the flexibility that was exclusively the "other airlines pilots" job.