SuperFLUF
lazy Mc Donald's pilot
- Joined
- Jul 9, 2003
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I don't think you are actually at CO, I think you are a troll. But for the sake of argument, let's say you are. Once again for the slow people in the room (ie SFR):
Expectations from 6 months ago mean nothing. Zero. Zilch. Not from CO, and not from UA. Everything is a new world.
If you want to use career expectiations from the past, fine, we can all pick and choose.
You can choose:
CO pilot's expectations from the 1 year ago (good), and a UA pilot's expectations from 2003 (terrible).
But wait, I get to choose too:
I pick my old expectations from 1999 (wow those are good memories! 747-400's to new hires...), and I pick a CO pilot's expectations from say the first or second BK (not so good).
Now, we just have to get an arbitrator to decide which historical fantasy world to use...
Get the idea? None of the above is going to happen! We have good MEC people at BOTH companies working hard right now to make sure neither side gets boned. If it ever got to arbitration, which I hope it doesn't, he/she isn't going to use best case (for SFR) historical model. The arbitrator will use the world on the day of arbitration, a world of $130 barrel oil, where aircraft orders may be more of a liability than an asset, where we are all losing our shirts, a world where ALL our career expectations suck.
If UA/CO merge, we will work it out just fine. No thanks to SFR though.
Exactly. (good post)
Tilton's yearnings aside. If CAL chooses to marry up with UAL it will be because the outlook is not good for either party to go it alone. That pretty much evens out the career expectations argument.