USAir (east) May bid includes 160 recalls

[152SIC]

If the recall rate is at 25% how long do they have to go after recalling 160 pilots? Thanks!

 

[General Lee]

If the recall rate is at 25% how long do they have to go after recalling 160 pilots? Thanks!

I would say 640 pilots. Is that question from the SAT's?


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[152SIC]

From the SAT's? What is that?

 

[sonny320]

From the SAT's? What is that?

You're joking right???

 

[152SIC]

Yeah, I am. Hahaha. That was sure funny, huh? Maybe I am the next Eddie Izzard? Perhaps...

Dork.

What's SAT's?

 

[General Lee]

The Scholastic Aptitude Tests---to get into College. Get it yet? I made a funny.


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[152SIC]

Oh, that is kinda funny now; against me however!!

I think I need to rephrase my original question!

 

[Bubba Dog]

Heard letters went out to Dec 89.

 

[Tejas-Jet]

Actually, I never applied to USAir. I won't say whether or not I fly for a major.

The mere fact that I hear a bunch of USAir pilots say that it they want DOH with Delta is a joke! Your worthless excuse for management can't even finish the last integration. I bet that one will create a great working environment

OK...maybe you don't fly for a major...since you seem to not know much about mergers....if, and only IF the US Airways pilots want DOH in a merger with Delta, isn't that really up for that pilot group and their merger comittee to decide? You might think it is a joke...but it is not for you to decide...unless...oops...thats right, you never applied.

Second, it is not up to management to integrate the seniority list. It is done through a process agreed to in the ALPA Merger Policy. That process is ongoing in Washington DC....and that policy will be applied when it is all said and done. You'll probably hear of a final decision in a couple of months.

If the Delta deal goes through....then ALPA Merger Policy will be applied there too...

As far as the working environment...this isn 't the first merger and it won't be the last...there will be those few who want to make themselves martyrs over all this....thankfully, they are the minority...and why are you worried about it? You never even applied.

 

[elag777]

Just wondering what the story is with that? Why did the blue KoolAid wear off? I thought they administered that stuff rectally.


I wasn't trying to be a jerk. Almost without exception furloughees have expressed no desire to return to the major that let them go almost 5 years ago. We all (myself included) dismissed the suggestion of recall since so much time has been lost, the retirements decimated, the compensation and benefits packages a mere shadow of what they were before we left.

Today, faced with the prospect of that recall, we're all (again almost without exception) looking at it more critically. We're no longer dismissing the idea outright, but looking at it as we would any other job opportunity and trying to determine if we DID accept the job, what would the impact be on our families, etc.

For me, it would most likely mean a two leg commute to a lower paying job, a crash-pad, and having to purchase some sort of transportation at the domicile. BUT the top end pay is higher and the retirement is still better than what I get currently.

So i'm not trying to be a jerk when asking why the Jetblue pilots would return. I am just curious as to why they are making that decision? What happened to the culture? The rapid growth? What made these folks decide that JetBlue isn't the career they thought it might be?

These are questions we're ALL asking about our current employers right now, nomatter how good the job.

I think it was the part about the "kool aid" enema that might have got his goat up? :erm: