Originally Posted by
kc135driver
Bottom line, this is mgmt's problem. Ideally THEY have the power to recall on both sides at the same time (its called balancing the flying instead of take it out in the hides of the 1437). Dealing with the inefficiencies of any other approach, with a new JCBA or not is inconsequential.
KC
Not sure this is accurate. CAL is currently taking aircraft delivers and according to our contract as well as the JCBA, the additional block hours from those deliveries need to go to the CAL pilots until seniority is integrated.
As I recall, the UAL side has protection at 90% of block hours and that will fall to 0% on January 1, 2012. As I understand it, management could reduce UAL flying/airframes while as the same time increasing the CAL side.
By the way, while this certainly favors the CAL pilots, I don't believe that anyone on the CAL side is hoping for such a scenario to play out.