+1 to almost all of C152's post
Higney- I guess I'm not clear enough, I am SUPER thankful for the opportunity. I am IMPRESSED that a)the unions are this organized and b) the company almost looks like it might be looking at something other than the bottom dollar.

Let me extend you a personal thank you because I know you're a Pinnacle rep.

That said, most of the furloughs knew that there wasn't a recall forthcoming. This has thrown a wrench in our plans. Maybe it's a good wrench,the jury is still out. The first 60 will be given the choice of going to pinnacle and the next 90 will only be able to go to colgan. Pinnacle offers us the ability to bid our former bases which is awesome, however we'll be on reserve and to be honest it sounds like your reserve sucks. Colgan will hire more, so some guys might be line holders but their work rules are very poor so perhaps that's not really better.

The choice we face is tied up in the seniority integration, if it goes the way many previous mergers have gone, furloughs generally get stapled. The thought process being, "these guys didn't have jobs anyway, so what do they care about being stapled to the bottom" or some version there of. This offer is very well thought out because it reduces the number of true new hires and thus the number that would be affected by whatever the final decision is on SLI. The issue is, we're faced with returning to one of the companies now in an attempt to preserve our seniority or risking getting stapled and losing what little seniority we might have.

Obviously there is a lot to contemplate for a lot of people. I guess the issue is maybe we shouldn't be trying to discuss the merit of the offer in mixed company.

I ,for one, appreciate the show of solidarity by the pinnacle and colgan pilot groups. I just have no idea what my answer will be when the time comes.

In the mean time, I hope you get a TA soon and that it's worthy of the time you've waited for it.