I don't think so, actually. I'm guessing if Shuttle America were opening a 70 seat RJ base in IAH the reaction would be the same.

 

BWAHAHAHA! You call ME clueless and brag about how your airline has made money during difficult times. Ummm.. yeah, Joe, and why is that? Because you were guaranteed a profit, regardless of how much it hurt mainline! You love history. Take a look at what happened to ACA when they decided they were too cool for school.

You go ahead with that threat there tough guy. You must have missed it the first 10 times I said it. I'm speak slowly so you can follow.

I


Don't


Care.

But I bet United does.

 

Nope, I expect you to give it up because you have no control over it. You only operate those jets at the whim of our Scope clause.

 

Psst, CAL is still here as is our contract. We did stick our heels in the sand and ended up with 50 or less scope, are you having trouble understanding that?

If you're so hell bent on defending flying that violates anothers contract perhaps you should be one of the first ones to sign up for the IAH base.

I'll see you there.

 

And your idea that an organization that is not recognized by the NMB to be the legal representative of a pilot group reaching out to CAL ALPA sounds nice in your ideal non-union brotherhood fairly land but until Skywest pilots get their heads out of the sand and want to participate in this discussion by finally unionizing like the vast majority of those in our profession. But where was SAPA when DD was fighting to get his job back? Where was SAPA's team of attorneys representing DD at court? See, I can play the strawman argument as well. The ONE disagreement on pay banding between UALPA and CALPA does not mean they are not united on scope.

The point is that the ALPA SPSC committee is fully spooled up on this. This committee is comprised of pilots from many different types of airlines. The whole purpose of the SPSC is to coordinate strategy and tactics between multiple pilot groups. Pilots of multiple airlines are being coordinated to fight this scope violation. Skywest pilots find themselves in the middle of a battlefield without any real say. Someone used the term collateral damage before. I think that is a very good analogy for this situation.

Do you want to be part of the solution or put your head back in the sand while everyone else is fighting this battle?

I don't think the issue is having an RJ base in IAH. But I haven't heard anything about Shuttle America like I have about Skywest.

 

Yep the above reveals just about how completely worthless you are Joe. To be fair based on the above, I actually look forward to 'stealing' your job back to mainline. That is the most pathetic thing I've heard since the '83 scab that said he had no other choice. Good career!?! Unfortunately the censors probably will only let me call you a loser JoeH*...

Strap on your David Clarks and hope your FO hasn't turned off the hot mic. Joe Merchant has an opinion...

 

We will have to agree to disagree then. Skywest long ago announced they would be flying a CRJ 700 from IAH-ASE and there was some grumbling, but no threat of jumpseat denial. This only came when Skywest announced that they would be opening a 20 plane crew base in IAH.

I'm not a CAL guy, so I could be wrong here, but I don't remember this getting to the MEC level until the base was announced.

 

Intrepid, I think you may need more fiber in your diet...You seem to be getting really worked up...Especially with your fellow United pilots. Here are some of your comments to them.

Seriously dude, your going to blow a gasket.

 

Actually, as an IAH based XJT pilot who commutes on CAL every week, there were lots of grumblings about that. From my understanding, the CAL MEC did look into that but they felt that it was technically not a violation of their contract.

My point is that Shuttle America is doing the same exact thing as Skywest yet I don't hear nearly as much animosity about that. What's the difference? I'm sure if Skywest was doing this 70 seat IAH flying with no base, you would still have this ruckus over Skywest.

 

Hypocrisy.