Originally Posted by
Spacemann Splif
I have to ask, where do you propose they go? I am very lucky in that I have not been furloughed (yet). But if the acquiring company is strong enough not to have any furloughs, strictly from a "career expectations" standpoint, why should the acquired company's furloughed pilots expect more than a staple?
Should a furloughed Frontier guy have been senior to a non-furloughed Southwest guy? Really? I have no dog in this fight, but I'm curious to see how you justify your position.
I would hope that the furloughed pilots would maintain their expectation to be recalled into the Airbus that they were hired into, which often occurred after leaving a position as a captain at a commuter. Hopefully the arbitrator sees it that way, but the precedent isn't there (mostly because an integration like this has never happened before).
If it had been an integration with SWA, then the furloughed pilots would have obviously been below the working SWA pilots. That precedent is clear from other mergers.
Originally Posted by
yamahas3
If I personally were the #1 guy, not if I were the person who is in the #1 spot.
My point was that if you
were here, you wouldn't feel that way. Looking at the top of our list, I'd be very surprised if any of the top 10 would have preferred SWA, but I'll ask them when I see them.
Originally Posted by
Aloha
Is it true that 250 F9 maintenance positions in DEN just got forced to relocate to MKE? In your opinion, is this the beginning of the companies restructuring that is certain to take place? How do you think the F9 pilots will be affected?
Yes, most of the mx is going to MKE, and dispatch and scheduling are going to IND. They may open a MKE domicile, but it would take probably 10-20 aircraft in MKE before that would be worth it. For now it's only 5 or 6 airplanes there.
On a positive note, we start service to Fairbanks, AK in May!