The rumor is that even if we had said we would fly the planes for free Kelner still would have pulled them since he wanted to diversify every since prior to contract 04 when we voted to strike. If we had struck, CAL would have gone bankrupt in something like 90 days and have had to shut the doors something like 30 days after that. This was the first chance that he could pull airplanes and he did it. Does it suck for us, yes, but the newest rumor is airplanes coming back to CAL(XR's for EP's 1:2 ratio, 135's being removed, and some other stuff). Is this a good thing for us, could be, we could buy new airplanes(not subject to the CPA restictions) to replace the ones being parked or we could shrink. Who knows.
My advice to those in the pool are to go elsewhere. Who knows when we are going to have another new hire class and upgrades are so slow you will sit reserve for a while. If your in the pool right now in the time that you would go to training, sit reserve, and hold a line here as an FO you could upgrade at a place like TSA, Pinnacle, Mesa, Colgan, Mesaba, Compass, etc...
