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Old 04-03-2011 | 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by pilotgolfer
How were the Continental Express pilots handled when they went to CAL? Were they given longevity dates that matched their DOH at CAL or was it based on Express?
A fun question and over course unnecessarily complicated. Once the flow through was established if you were hired at Express you carried your Express DOH for pass travel. If you were hired at Bar Harbor/Rocky/Brit in 1974 then that's your DOH for pass travel if you flowed through. When off the street hiring started they allowed one to keep COEX DOH for pass travel as well.

Sometime in 2007 CAL decided to terminate that perk so those Ex-Express hires after then have a 2007/08 pass travel date. There are some more tweaks to this issue that I'm sure somebody else can fill in. It's a prime example of the company finding a simple way to divide groups so we can yell at each other instead of the company.

I fully expect the whole Express DOH to get torpedoed as a result of this merger. There are plenty off the street hires that think it's BS to carry anything over from time spent at a commuter. It will spank me a bit, but I'm not an optimist when it comes to Unical keeping previous promises.
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