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[johnpeace]

Well there's only been 1 cancel due to availability today and 1 yesterday. Sounds like people are answering the phone. We better crank up hiring, 2 whole cancels!

Sounds like we just hired 2600 pilots.

Welcome aboard everyone!

 

[Tarzan]

Sounds like we just hired 2600 pilots.

Welcome aboard everyone!

Ever heard of ALPA merger policy? Read up on it and get back to us. There will be no staple. There will be no one getting an a$$load of seniority of this.

Look for all MEC members to go to the top of the list. Everyone else will be relative seniority.

 

[NotTooBad]

Sounds like we just hired 2600 pilots.

Welcome aboard everyone!

That is a stupid and insensitive statement. A lot of people are truly worried right now about this stuff you you speak well above your pay grade and assume we hire 2600 pilots (implying bottom of seniority list). Please think about what you are saying before you speak. We will soon sit in cockpits with these guys/gals.

 

[Medeco]

I dont think he was implying that.

 

[johnpeace]

Ever heard of ALPA merger policy? Read up on it and get back to us. There will be no staple. There will be no one getting an a$$load of seniority of this.

Look for all MEC members to go to the top of the list. Everyone else will be relative seniority.

Oh right...I think you might've misunderstood.

I was only saying that we just went from way understaffed to probably overstaffed.

That is a stupid and insensitive statement. A lot of people are truly worried right now about this stuff you you speak well above your pay grade and assume we hire 2600 pilots (implying bottom of seniority list).

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply anything like that.

Only that with the addition of 2600 pilots, the 'short staffed' issues will probably find themselves resolved.

I'm about 60 from the bottom of ASAs list and have been furloughed for 19 months. I have a class date in a few weeks and am now wondering if the result will be that I get furloughed again in Q1 of 2011.

I'm as 'worried' about it as anyone is.

 

[Varmint]

No sense in getting into pissing matches. What is going to happen is going to happen and we are not stopping it. Expressjet has some of the most professional pilots out there, and so do we. Lets do this right and get along, show everyone what true professionals we are. We can do it the Delta/NWA way or the USAir way. I chose the Delta way. Nobody is happy about possibly losing some seniority and as long as it stays that way and NOBODY is happy, then it will be fair. We just need to maintain our composures, get along with each other, and ride the ride because arguing is not going to change a darn thing.

 

[sayrejm]

Can recently recalled furloughs get furloughed again as the result of a merger?

 

[LazyLightnin']

Can recently recalled furloughs get furloughed again as the result of a merger?

Yeah.. You're screwed.

 

[johnpeace]

No sense in getting into pissing matches. What is going to happen is going to happen and we are not stopping it. Expressjet has some of the most professional pilots out there, and so do we. Lets do this right and get along, show everyone what true professionals we are. We can do it the Delta/NWA way or the USAir way. I chose the Delta way. Nobody is happy about possibly losing some seniority and as long as it stays that way and NOBODY is happy, then it will be fair. We just need to maintain our composures, get along with each other, and ride the ride because arguing is not going to change a darn thing.

And besides, it's going to work out great for all of us, look:

"We are extremely pleased to reach this definitive merger agreement with ExpressJet and look forward to the consummation of the transaction," said Bradford R. Rich, SkyWest, Inc.'s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. "We also look forward to the integration of these two successful airlines and employee work groups and hope to create integration benefits that will solidify the long-term future of each of these airlines in a very competitive industry," he continued.

 

[princeton]

Oh right...I think you might've misunderstood.

I was only saying that we just went from way understaffed to probably overstaffed.

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Expressjet is super-understaffed too. Dozens of cancellations last month for lack of crews, I don't see why this merger would make any difference.