Originally Posted by
furloughforlife
That's getting "hosed" in my book, anybody disagree? If we're eventually going to fly together (probably with me as your F/O), you could at least show some knowledge of the real situation and some empathy. .
I have total empathy for your situation. United screwed you. Scope screwed you. I also think it is true that United rights sized for a merger. Tilton made it known that his primary objective was to merge UAL with another carrier. USAir was extremely close to closing the deal when CAL came in, so I don't know it's fair to say that UAL was right sizing specific to CAL.
What I still don't understand is why you would be upset at being at potentially being at the bottom of the new UAL versus your previous position. You are going to get back to work much faster than had UAL not merged and you are going to progress at an extraordinary rate. With the amount of outsourcing going on at United (70 seat RJ's, AerLingus), who knows if you ever would have gotten back to work there.