I don't think you'll see anyone hired to America West. You might see some of the new hires to US Airways placed on equipment in PHX or LAS. There is a big difference there. If you were placed out West, you'd operate under our CBA (the old AWA contract) because everyone out West operates under the old AWA CBA agreement until a new CBA is negotiated and the combined seniority list gets hammered out and implemented.
AWA doesn't exist anymore. The certificate was retired (or put on the shelf) and we are all (East and West) now on the US Airways certificate. AWA pilots are contract pilots under the AWA CBA flying on the US Airways certificate.
So, you'd be a new hire to US Airways, and then it would be up to HR, INDOC, “secret squirrel check” to see where you were placed. West would be a winner as a new hire because you'd make more while all this crap is hammered out, but I’d bet you don't know till day 1 of INDOC.
As far as the AWA poolies coming West, they have a new US Airways P# under the combined seniority list. They won't be able to "retro rights" to the West. They will only be able to move West if their seniority can hold it. A new hire who was domiciled in PHX or LAS would be protected at that domicile, IE not forced to move, but might be on Reserve a long time as East guys bid West vacancies as they develop. All that of course once we use the combined list. In the short term, a West domiciled US Airways new hire would be way better off financially and work rule wise.
Stay away from the Sleep Inn. My truck was broken into there and they didn't care. Know by PHX police as a high break in Lot. Letters to Corporate, etc, all fell on deaf ears. Jerks. Just my 2 cents on the issues.
