United's used aircraft speculation article
10-30-2014 | 10:49 PM
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10-31-2014 | 05:57 AM
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I am/was complaining about the 175. How many of those are not going to mainline because we gave up that scope? The 50/70 seaters killed themselves and were going away anyway. We just gave relief to the company and Skywest etc... By giving away larger aircraft (the 175). I do hope we see the 190's or larger.
10-31-2014 | 07:28 AM
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As a pilot that spent a decade at the Regional level, I believe that scope it the most important issue with regards to a CBA. I think that it's more important get the flying to mainline and then we can eventually get the pay rates. I think that it's a bit myopic to pass up on the flying because the current pay rates are low. We need to begin to take our flying back and get the jobs at mainline!!!
10-31-2014 | 07:46 AM
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As a pilot that spent a decade at the Regional level, I believe that scope it the most important issue with regards to a CBA. I think that it's more important get the flying to mainline and then we can eventually get the pay rates. I think that it's a bit myopic to pass up on the flying because the current pay rates are low. We need to begin to take our flying back and get the jobs at mainline!!!
10-31-2014 | 09:07 AM
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When the feed is too expensive, unreliable, uncompetitive or which other metric is important at the time, the flying comes back. Combined with restrictive scope language, the company can serve marginal markets but it's up to the pilot group to keep/strengthen restrictive language that makes the economic formula favor mainline pilots on a given route.
10-31-2014 | 09:45 AM
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I completely agree! I understand the costs associated. All I was trying to say is that if UAL is going to convert the flying to mainline, we shouldn't balk at it solely because of how low the current pay rates are.
10-31-2014 | 10:39 AM
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So which is it? We aren't going to have it both ways. I see the problem being that we are still below C2000 payrates, and this does not even take into account inflation. Fix that first, then deal with E-175 being on the property.
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