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intrepidcv11 04-10-2013 09:26 AM

The great irony is win or lose I won't let SLI wreck my day or even career like so many here clearly do. With the movement coming over the next 5 years anyone still p!ssed at their status in life in 10 years was going to have a miserable career no matter what. So keep slinging dates of upgrades from multiple time slices and percentages of holy widebody seats if it makes your innards stir. It won't change the time tested law in every merger that we all are going to be p'od at the result.

cadetdrivr 04-10-2013 09:32 AM


Originally Posted by intrepidcv11 (Post 1388217)
It won't change the time tested law in every merger that we all are going to be p'od at the result.

+1

The key is to insure that everybody is equally p'od. That will verify that the award was fair. :)

Staller 04-10-2013 09:34 AM


Originally Posted by Olecal (Post 1388213)
That would be pretty hard since at the time of merger CAL's 50% was a March 1998 hire. Currently the 50% is approximately an April 2005 hire! Geez, please stop with the hatchet math, both you and staller are relentless to bash CAL. Guys like you are gonna be a pleasure to fly with!


Anything I've said was a lie - please let me know!

Yes - Not likely to be a Buck and Bubba type if you know what I mean. There will be no hand holding - Sorry!

LAX Pilot 04-10-2013 09:37 AM


Originally Posted by vspeed (Post 1388210)
Two way street...I'm sure they were probably countering a popular L-UAL's assertion/argument of 13+ years total longevity (including furlough) for SLI positioning rather than just payscale (involved in the civil lawsuit) with actual 4-5 on property not on furlough...can't blame them either...if someone from L-UAL argues that they should get not only pay but SLI positioning based on time on property AND furlough, then why should a board date versus hire date be tossed aside? Same difference...plus one could argue that those on the board date at COEX were joined to the hip of CAL subject to furlough ties at mainline based on the subsidiary relationship between CAL and COEX before the XJT IPO. Therefore career progression at COEX to XJT and then the flowthrough to CAL were all based on board date which held more power at the time than relative seniority to any specific company. If you use the argument of 'right-sizing' back to the 2000's, then you have to consider the strong tied relationship and career progression of mainline to the regional feeder as the subsidiary relationship existed. Hence the reason for post IPO MOU'S drawn up by CAL and ALPA... Complicated, ain't it,...I wouldn't worry though...not like our opinions have anything to do with anything

That's a terrible argument. There was no "Expectation" or "Guarantee" that a COEX hire would be hired by CAL. Also, a career expectation is just that, regardless of being active or not.

An ACTIVE CAL pilot has 188 777 Captain jobs to look forward to.

A FURLOUGHED UAL pilot has about 800 747 or 777 Captain jobs to look forward to.

LAX Pilot 04-10-2013 09:40 AM


Originally Posted by Olecal (Post 1388213)
That would be pretty hard since at the time of merger CAL's 50% was a March 1998 hire. Currently the 50% is approximately an April 2005 hire! Geez, please stop with the hatchet math, both you and staller are relentless to bash CAL. Guys like you are gonna be a pleasure to fly with!

Today is not relevant. Also 50% doesn't hold Captain. You probably weren't aware of this, but there are more FO's than Captains because the widebody fleets fly with 1 Captain and 3 FO's much of the time. So Based on the total number of Captain jobs it was a 94 hire.

Also there is a big deal between a career as a 737 pilot and flying a 747 A-350 or 777.

vspeed 04-10-2013 09:45 AM


Originally Posted by LAX Pilot (Post 1388230)
That's a terrible argument. There was no "Expectation" or "Guarantee" that a COEX hire would be hired by CAL. Also, a career expectation is just that, regardless of being active or not.

An ACTIVE CAL pilot has 188 777 Captain jobs to look forward to.

A FURLOUGHED UAL pilot has about 800 747 or 777 Captain jobs to look forward to.

Yes there was, we had a flow though agreement...You could get in 3 ways...the top 110 guys/gals on the COEX list when the flow through agreement was signed...Interview, or RJ PIC for 2 years.The interviews were conducted in 98-2000 and those hired were put into a pool with off the street hires with a guarantee of a class date when the ratio kicked in. The IPO was the only reason the tie was severed. But agreements were still bound by the two companies in MOU and pref hire status.

The first half of many flowthrough retained their board dates as their date of hire, only the IPO eliminated the board date as a means to payscale once the transition to CAL happened. Which is why the MOU agreements were signed...

Again, this is just trudging up the past but maybe it will shed some light on why you may be getting "board date" answers for hire dates from CAL pilots...my advice would be to not ask as you probably already know the answer and any other discussion would just lead to disagreement.

Sorry you don't like the answer, but it's probably what most would tell you

vspeed 04-10-2013 10:02 AM


Originally Posted by LAX Pilot (Post 1388230)
That's a terrible argument. There was no "Expectation" or "Guarantee" that a COEX hire would be hired by CAL. Also, a career expectation is just that, regardless of being active or not.

An ACTIVE CAL pilot has 188 777 Captain jobs to look forward to.

A FURLOUGHED UAL pilot has about 800 747 or 777 Captain jobs to look forward to.

Disagree with how you are using expectations. A career expectation for a furloughed pilot temporarily ceases to exist when furloughed...hence the meaning of the word furlough. Besides benefits, expectations shift to a priority of returning to work first, then continuing normal line of progression within the Active company ranks where expectations can then resume. Historically, furloughs have prevailed at airlines instead of layoffs since the unions require/enforce them and their protections afforded in CBA contracts. If the company had it their way, a layoff would be used instead of a furlough severing all ties including benefits.

Olecal 04-10-2013 10:10 AM


Originally Posted by Staller (Post 1388226)
Anything I've said was a lie - please let me know!

Yes - Not likely to be a Buck and Bubba type if you know what I mean. There will be no hand holding - Sorry!

Wow! You must lead a charmed life, a true pleasure to be around! I've have never seen someone who harbors this kind of hatred for others they don't even know (except the ignorant!)! Good luck out there, you're gonna need it.

SEDPA 04-10-2013 10:12 AM


Originally Posted by vspeed (Post 1388251)
Disagree with how you are using expectations. A career expectation for a furloughed pilot temporarily ceases to exist when furloughed...hence the meaning of the word furlough. Besides benefits, expectations shift to a priority of returning to work first, then continuing normal line of progression within the Active company ranks where expectations can then resume. Historically, furloughs have prevailed at airlines instead of layoffs since the unions require/enforce them and their protections afforded in CBA contracts. If the company had it their way, a layoff would be used instead of a furlough severing all ties including benefits.

Wow ... Simply stated, but so matter of fact ... simple enough for anyone to understand, like 3 arbitrary lawyers.

Olecal 04-10-2013 10:16 AM


Originally Posted by LAX Pilot (Post 1388233)
Today is not relevant. Also 50% doesn't hold Captain. You probably weren't aware of this, but there are more FO's than Captains because the widebody fleets fly with 1 Captain and 3 FO's much of the time. So Based on the total number of Captain jobs it was a 94 hire.

Also there is a big deal between a career as a 737 pilot and flying a 747 A-350 or 777.

My guess is that today will have some relevance. Might want to check your stats, but you won't! As per you, CAL is a norrowbody airline (which actually paid higher than 3/4 of UAL's frames), in our narrowbody BES's, CAL has 10% more CA's than FO's, therefore evening out the percentage to very close to 50%...


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