Originally Posted by
Lambourne
Can you provide some information about theses pilots? If someone shows up as a 737 pilot I would guess they may have been senior and volunteered for the furlough. Their fleet seat would not represent a different a/c since they were never trained. There were a good number of people that took voluntary furloughs or leaves of absence. Better get yourself more facts before you start dropping bombs.
Please don't slam the guy. He said he didn't know if an answer to why the UAL seniority list showed guys staffed on the 737 had be received. He wasn't "dropping bombs" as you say. A little background on why he wondered:
Around the seniority list exchange time, we had some LEC meetings at CAL. People asked what was going on with the SLI talks and where we stood. The pilots were told the lists had been exchanged and we were in the information gathering stage so that both sides could understand the lists, ask any questions and answer any questions. For the most part, the exchange was straight forward, but that our side had some questions for when the committees got together again about the information on the list. When asked, the example that was given was that the UA seniority list shows pilots on the 737 when the 737 is no longer on property there. The committee would be asking their UA counterparts why that was at their next meeting to ask/answer questions.
Nothing sinister about that. From the couple of answers above, it appears there is a logical answer based in information that the committee didn't have. No harm, no foul. I'm sure they met, asked the question, it was answered and moved on. Just like I'm sure the UA guys had questions about our list.