Preferential hiring for Comair pilots

[nimtz]

With the coming parking of 50's there will be plenty more liquidations coming. Gonna need a lot of prep interview groups. What seems like a nice idea quickly complicates fast. Let's remember how well LUV did with pref interviews for the ATA guys...

 

[HalinTexas]

With the coming parking of 50's there will be plenty more liquidations coming. Gonna need a lot of prep interview groups. What seems like a nice idea quickly complicates fast. Let's remember how well LUV did with pref interviews for the ATA guys...

Didn't get a whole lot of help from ALPA carriers either. CAL, maybe, but as many or more went to Asia.

Whatever, I'm over it.

 

[MCDU]

Preferential hiring only to the pilots hired after the pft era. Comair was the poster child in this despicable practice back in the 90's.

M

 

[Helos2Galaxy]

I will not support any preferential hiring (I have no say and am a line pogue).

U can thank Larson for his self serving horrendous behavior.

 

[Helos2Galaxy]

Lawson? Whatever.

 

[Ben Franklin]

There are 1437 furloughed United pilots who are not getting preferential treatment.

I thought they all were offered a slot, in seniority order, flying 737's on the CAL side of the UCH house?

 

[freightdogfred]

When Brand X up in KDAY went Tango Uniform I got no preferential treatment from my ALPA brothers down in CVG, even though I willingly ponied up over 500 clams in a special "strike fund" assessment from ALPO. The only thing I got was some pencil-necked geeky 26 year old kid askin me "Why did I want to work at Comair" (ummm, I need a job?) and "Why should Comair hire me?" (Guess he forgot the whole strike assessment thingy, an me bein a fellow ALPO pilot an all)
I wish no will on anyone, but what comes around goes around in this bizness.

 

[CheapFlyer]

I thought they all were offered a slot, in seniority order, flying 737's on the CAL side of the UCH house?

They were.

This thread is about preferential hiring at other carriers. No other respectable airline offered assistance to those guys, not one.

Then again, not much hiring has happened over the past three years.

 

[jetflier]

I think that pref hiring is a good thing, and the courtesy should be extended to the Comair Folks.

 

[FmrFreightDog]

I think that pref hiring is a good thing, and the courtesy should be extended to the Comair Folks.

Respectfully disagree....

TO: Comair Pilots
FROM: J.C. Lawson, Comair MEC Chairman
DATEecember 16, 2002
Your MEC met in CVG with the Delta MEC Chairman, Captain Will Buergey, at his request, to discuss preferential hiring of furloughed Delta pilots at Comair. Through this letter, I hope to dispel rumors and provide a more thorough understanding of the purpose and outcome of that meeting.

The Delta MEC, while in session at the bi-annual October Board of Directors meeting in Hollywood, Florida, formally directed the Delta MEC Chairman via resolution to meet with the Comair MEC Chairman to seek preferential hiring for furloughed Delta pilots at Comair while allowing them to retain their Delta seniority.

The general philosophy held by the Comair MEC is:

We are sensitive to the regrettable plight of all furloughed pilots in our industry.
We encourage our management to hire pilots who seek a future at Comair.
We have formally approached Comair management and our management has agreed to preferential hiring of furloughed ALPA pilots.
We agree with our company's policy that requires prospective Comair pilots to resign their seniority at their previous carrier.
We believe our Company's industry-standard policy requiring seniority resignation is sound and wise. It promotes the general health and welfare of all Comair employees and serves to protect the future of our company.
At our meeting in CVG, Captain Buergey offered preferential hiring to Comair pilots if the Comair MEC would recommend to Comair management that they hire furloughed Delta pilots and allow them to retain their Delta seniority.

Your MEC responded that hiring any pilots at Comair who do not resign their seniority at their previous carrier gives rise to numerous substantive concerns. The Delta MEC's offer of (future) preferential hiring at Delta is not sufficiently substantive to overcome those concerns and solicit Comair pilots' support. We suggested three alternative concepts, any one or all of which might lead to a mutually beneficial solution:

Relax the Delta PWA, Section 1, seat restrictions imposed upon Comair and ASA that limit our growth in 70-seat and larger airframes.
Negotiate Delta Brand Scope language with Delta management that defines all Delta flying within the Delta revenue stream to be performed solely by Delta, Comair, and ASA pilots.
Negotiate a plan for future integration of our Delta, Comair, and ASA pilots seniority lists that fairly recognizes the efforts and contributions of all.

The Comair MEC stands ready to work with the collective MEC's to bring about change that makes sense in a challenging economic environment and works for all pilots who perform flying under the Delta brand. As we stated in the Tuesday, December 3rd meeting, our door is still open.

COMAIR MEC
AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION, INTERNATIONAL
SUITE 120 3940 OLYMPIC BOULEVARD ERLANGER, KY 41018
859-282-9016 FAX 859-283-5533