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03-21-2013 | 07:03 AM

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Imapilot2

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Bring on Hawaiian!, heavies and a small pilot group! Unlike Alaska which brings 1400 pilots that get heavy CA before me and bring none to the table. Booooooo

03-21-2013 | 07:07 AM

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chuck416

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Originally Posted by Imapilot2

Bring on Hawaiian!, heavies and a small pilot group! Unlike Alaska which brings 1400 pilots that get heavy CA before me and bring none to the table. Booooooo

I like the way you think. But, does HI Air yield us the west coast North-South routes & traffic that we need? Not too familiar w/ the west coast metrics, so plz excuse my ignorance in this.

03-21-2013 | 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by cni187

Which boggles my mind. Oakland is a junior base for SWA and Fed Ex. SFO is junior for UAL. What gives?? LA you have to cover as many airports as NY and they're farther apart.

Skywest and Alaska take care of the West. Plenty of juniority there.

03-21-2013 | 07:13 AM

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Imapilot2

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Originally Posted by chuck416

I like the way you think. But, does HI Air yield us the west coast North-South routes & traffic that we need? Not too familiar w/ the west coast metrics, so plz excuse my ignorance in this.

No but it brings, A Hawaiian Base! and 600 pilots with mostly heavies versus 1400 with no heavies. Hopefully we keep expanding doing the work ourselves on the north/south West coast flow instead of bringing on the Alaska pilots to do it.

JMO

03-21-2013 | 07:16 AM

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johnso29

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Originally Posted by Columbia

Skywest and Alaska take care of the West. Plenty of juniority there.

Based on all the new routes recently announced, apparently they don't.

03-21-2013 | 07:21 AM

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NuGuy

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Originally Posted by fartboxflyer

please tell us what a frozen pension pays?

Depends on where you were when the music stopped. For some, it's a nice slice. For others, it won't even be beer money by the time they retire.

Nu

Last edited by NuGuy; 03-21-2013 at 07:36 AM.

03-21-2013 | 07:30 AM

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TANSTAAFL

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Originally Posted by Imapilot2

just a tidbit, it takes over five years of seniority to hold anything west of the Mississippi.

Heck, this is our junior 744/777 Captain and Purser

03-21-2013 | 07:36 AM

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NuGuy

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Originally Posted by sailingfun

We have had a net gain of 251 new Captains on the bids issued since the TA was signed.

How many of those pilots (or those around them) were previously displaced from captain positions?...in other words, re-upgraded.

If a guy finally took an upgrade for the first time from being senior WB FO, while the guys around him have been displaced from captain's positions for a a couple years, I guess you can call that a "new captain", but it doesn't tell the whole story.

Once you upgrade the guy junior to the most junior guy that held captain, then you can say "new upgrades" and have it mean anything.

It's the same as getting a marginal pay increase after taking a large pay cut, and calling it a "raise".

Nu