Originally Posted by Probe (Post 1528886)

Staller and his follow-on monikers haven't hijacked and destroyed a thread......has it been weeks, or months?

Guppy's suck. The lCAL pilots I fly with have flown many other aircraft and complain about it as much as I do. The only pilots I have met that like it are the young starry-eyed ex RJ instructors in the Puzzle Palace South Campus.

I actually had 3 of them start the sim brief with "It is not a guppy anymore, it is a real airplane. And they are all ETOPS!"

LOL Flame suit on.

Happy Thanksgiving

Originally Posted by socalflyboy (Post 1529000)

If you'd be so kind to reference my o.g. post on this topic...never once said that only lcal pilots can/could fly the guppy...it's just funny how some poke fun of it,compare it to a 757, etc...then after whining about it, jump all over it.
But seeing how today is yet another day of no reserve, I'll tangle a bit...by scab-a-thon, are you referring to that wicked, evil, satan breeding scab company "CAL", who hired the poor furloughed UAL pilots at like 100 bones or more an hour( in a sheety *** economy, mind you)?? This merger has brought out the best and yet the worst of some keyboard commands, but from an entertaining perpestive, it's glorious!

Originally Posted by pilot64golfer (Post 1529084)

"CAL" didn't hire the furloughed pilots. United did. They put them on the old L-CAL side of the airline because it was cheaper to do that.

The only reason there was still a CAL side was because we needed a SLI to integrate and the company recognized the cost savings of the no work rules contract on that side, and took advantage of that as long as possible.

CAL stopped existing well before they furloughed pilots came back.

Originally Posted by socalflyboy (Post 1529099)

I sure hope your on LTD or FMLA, because we( Ual) do these things called random pee test...and I'm pretty sure they do test for that crack your smoking!

Originally Posted by pilot64golfer (Post 1529151)

Well the planes had United painted on them and the callsign they used was United and the paycheck said United. Also the ID badge said United.

Originally Posted by Snarge (Post 1529201)

It can be the CAL ops certificate, but it will be the United Pilot Culture....

Originally Posted by APC225 (Post 1529190)

Ah yes, but they were, are, and forever will fly under the Continental Airlines certificate. If we're going to parse it.

Federal Aviation Administration - Airline Certificate Information - CALA014A

Originally Posted by pilot64golfer (Post 1529276)

You guys will hold onto that forever....

Originally Posted by APC225 (Post 1529283)

Only mention it when someone does the "we bought you etc" routine. That gets tiresome especially as it's pretty much a moot point now that the JCBA and ISL are done. You won, we lost. Move on.