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Old 05-05-2010, 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by strfyr51 View Post
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what kind of foolishness are you talking about?? Obviously you haven't Been near our 747-400's or you'd know (or coming from USAIR maybe you wouldn't) that the oil consumption is Less than the 737 because we have to fly much longer legs and we maintain our engines to ETOPS oil consumption limits. So you show that you know NOTHING!!
And to make ANOTHER point We 'LOVED' and flew the 737's while you guys were flying those "Hotdog Bun" MD80's. So You REALLY don't know anything!!
Maybe you should have STAYED at USAIR because you sound just like those LOSERS. Hooray for ME! and SCREW you?? Isn't that your motto??
Get this straight Einstien! Nobody did ANY of this Just to screw YOU!!
Nobody asked any of yours, or OUR OPINIONS!! And if it happens or if it doesn't!! YOUR opinion about the merits of it STILL won't mean JACK!
So if your "knickers" are in a twist?? Big Deal! Join the CLUB!! AT UAL the PAY is for Groupings of similarly "skilled" airplanes. 757/767 are considered interchangeable from the Pilot seat as BOTH fly ETOPS and BOTH have their improtance to the fleet. 747/777, A320/A319/737 were similarly grouped That's why with a similar number of airplanes we flew 36 Million more revenue passenger Kilometers than CAL did JAN-DEC 2009. Cal 125,155,550 RPK, UAL 161,665,392, RPK so the "something" WE bring to the table is pretty damn "considerable" and we did it with these SAME "Jurasic" airplanes, So you don't have anything to say about Jack! Obviously somebody smarter than YOU thought this was a good idea and I tend to agree with them!! And another thing! You ARE going to come to United's proceedures, OUR OCC, and OUR way of doing things... I already Know that, so we'll see you again in the spring when you start calling the "Big Willie" in Sweet home Chicago "Hometown". Bring a coat! It can get cold. Cuz I'm gonna tell you what! We're gonna show Delta, American and our "snotty" cousins over IN Frankfurt, Tokyo, Bangkok, and Singapore How it's REALLY Done! They're pretty trite in calling Us Americans a bunch of "Cowboys".. GET THIS ACT TOGETHER, AND WE'LL give those "chumps" a REASON to call us "Buckaroos".. And STOP with the Whining! JeeZ!! You act like somebody DIED and named YOU the boss talkin bout what YOU don't like!!
Give it a break will you, whatta ya gonna do Quit?? Hardly likely!!
Put your cocktail down and step slooooowwwwllly away from the computer. Sheesh, what an a$$. I have never worked for USAIR. What gives? The point of my post was in response to someone telling me, a CAL pilot, how great freaking UAL is and how we should be lucky to be getting the widebody percentage. Something about 'chomping at the bits'...... I had to respectfully deny that I give a da** about that ancient fleet, bad morale and sh*** management.

My point was that it is out of our hands and that for UAL to have one good quarter after posting billions of dollars in losses over the last decade and then act like our savior, well I call BS. After 12-13 years I have a great position, fly in the senior base and live an hour away. Id like to keep it that way.

And I no way intend to say everyone thinks like the poster I was quoting in my original post. I dont believe that at all. Like I said, about every UAL pilot I ran into over the last MANY years was constantly hounding about the merger. All I ever said was "I hope not". But I guess one good quarter and the last decade is forgotten.

So I didnt start the crap about who is better or percentage vs DOH. All I said was that an attitude like UAL guys may deserve higher percentage integration due to the higher number of widebodies means absolutely nothing IMHFO. This is not a who is better than whom post. It is a response to someone who I inferred had a geneological, predisposed attitude to think they are superior. And I will defend against that all day and all night. You can make this a war if you want. I choose not to. Im trying to ignore the comments from UAL in Stapleton back when they had the TORQUE campaign with the lapel pin with a Screw threw the meatball. That stuff is not productive and can be moved on. But a lot of CAL guys remember that and comments from UAL releases saying that they are the 'brain surgeons' of the majors. I think most people are willing to drop all of that quickly. But comments like we are 'chomping at the bit' to fly UAL equipment is a bit over the top and to change percentages to get closer to that equipment neglects to reflect that at just over 11 years here, we can fly captain positions all over the world or FO positions with 20 days off at 12 grand a month. I dont think that longevity matches what we would have if we were at UAL. Hell, Ill sing kumbaya all day too if thats what you want.

PS. And the statement about the 757s being widebodies was stated incorrectly. We fly the 757 and 756-2 and 400 commonly. But the 757 was considered a widebody during the DAL/NWA integration.

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