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02-09-2012 | 05:56 PM
#41
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I also don't care whether your interested in a "CAL job" or not (though I suspect a majority of UAL furloughees won't be returning to a UAL job either), just realize there was more than a little oppostion to it at CAL at the time and it was essentially put to us that it would, in fact, be included in the TPA because essentially it was just "the right thing to do."
02-09-2012 | 08:04 PM
#42
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From: Fifi
I'm furloughed LUAL and like you never wanted to UAL to merge with CAL. If CAL is your love...keep yourself in Cleveland or Newark or Guam! We lost 2 planes and crews in 9/11 and faced cuts much deeper than CAL endured. I doubt the arbitrators will see things quite as you hope, but ask an AA pilot how that gloating is working for him now...if you don't see the farce / screw job of being told we are cutting so many planes because the 737 is not fuel efficient only to see the routes now being flown with the same model CAL737s..you are deserving of some lessons in Karma, Good luck ect.....
02-11-2012 | 07:40 AM
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I love how they are trying to rationalize the cheaper coffee. All the excutives were told, "which one taste better, remember the cheaper one will allow x amount more for bonuses?" I've always said that the cal coffee taste like they went up to starbucks and asked for the already used coffee grounds for the coffee in the airplane. I can't imagine a water downed version of it, its like drinking a watered down version of water. Once they fix the pillow packs and the coffee machines what are they going to blame then? Of course a 14 member panel can then spend more money looking for another reason for bad coffee.
Except for the obvious answer crappy coffee
Except for the obvious answer crappy coffee
02-11-2012 | 07:49 AM
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From: 737 CA
I don't understand the "my hub is better than yours" argument. Who lives in their base near the airport? Maybe Houston? I don't know any pilot that lives anywhere near EWR. Maybe as close as 30-45 minutes down the shore with snooky. Most are at least 1.5 hours away in PA, CT, upstate NY, etc. Who cares what the local airport area is like. Is there any major airport that you want to live by? The guy I flew with yesterday drove three hours from MA. What counts is that the flying out of EWR is the best (of CAL). 
02-11-2012 | 08:48 AM
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I don't understand the "my hub is better than yours" argument. Who lives in their base near the airport? Maybe Houston? I don't know any pilot that lives anywhere near EWR. Maybe as close as 30-45 minutes down the shore with snooky. Most are at least 1.5 hours away in PA, CT, upstate NY, etc. Who cares what the local airport area is like. Is there any major airport that you want to live by? The guy I flew with yesterday drove three hours from MA. What counts is that the flying out of EWR is the best (of CAL).
Carry on
02-13-2012 | 04:57 AM
#47
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From: Furloughed
<<what a load>>.
If the load you are referring to is the terms of hire that freeze us at whatever year pay at which we last got escorted off the property by a pimply faced intern until such time as we've been on the CAL side of the fence for that many years +1, but if we return to the UAL side of the fence none of the time spent on the CAL side counts toward longevity for pay purposes, then I agree with your assessment.
Sadly, that is not the load you refer to but reference instead a load that isn't a load at all, just a statement of opinion about the dissatifying nature of the facts.
<<continue smoking whatever merger conspiracy crack floats your boat.>>
I'm more of a merger conspiracy bong water drinker, but thanks for the suggestion.
Flying around playing yours, mine, and ours with you, Rocketiii, and your 'us and them' fellow travelers looks to be shaping up to be pantloads of fun.
And we won't even have an ADF to tune up to an AM radio station and enjoy the one bit of common ground we have so far, an agreement on the Stones Ruling.
As Tears Go By,
Kleenex Willy
If the load you are referring to is the terms of hire that freeze us at whatever year pay at which we last got escorted off the property by a pimply faced intern until such time as we've been on the CAL side of the fence for that many years +1, but if we return to the UAL side of the fence none of the time spent on the CAL side counts toward longevity for pay purposes, then I agree with your assessment.
Sadly, that is not the load you refer to but reference instead a load that isn't a load at all, just a statement of opinion about the dissatifying nature of the facts.
<<continue smoking whatever merger conspiracy crack floats your boat.>>
I'm more of a merger conspiracy bong water drinker, but thanks for the suggestion.
Flying around playing yours, mine, and ours with you, Rocketiii, and your 'us and them' fellow travelers looks to be shaping up to be pantloads of fun.
And we won't even have an ADF to tune up to an AM radio station and enjoy the one bit of common ground we have so far, an agreement on the Stones Ruling.
As Tears Go By,
Kleenex Willy
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