United will increase RJ flying!

[UALjan15]

Who cares what the US Airways J4J program was? It was much different from UAL program.

UA pilots are still under same contract as 2003/2004 when furloughees were flying with Skywest/Mesa/Republic, so I think the side letter deal would still apply.

Lots of misinformation flying around, so a few specifics. Furloughed dudes went into new hire classes for the right seat of the RJ at second year RJ pay; no interview required. No regional pilots were lost as a result of this--some street hires had to wait 1 or 2 classes for their slot, but otherwise it was no harm to established regional pilots. You had to wait for upgrade until you could hold it, just like any other new hire. The number of these "opportunities" was tied to the number of 70 seaters on the property doing UAL flying.

 

[Socalplt]

There's at least a couple of these pilots that stayed at SkyWest fearing they'd be furloughed again after a short time back at UA. Looks like it might not have been a bad decision now. There in the top 40-45% of the seniority list now.

 

[UALjan15]

There's at least a couple of these pilots that stayed at SkyWest fearing they'd be furloughed again after a short time back at UA. Looks like it might not have been a bad decision now. There in the top 40-45% of the seniority list now.

Hey Socal--

Was the 70 seat pay ever fixed, or is it still the same as 50 seat pay?

 

[OPECJet]

I was complaining about our ex President at Delta who wanted more RJs after 9-11, saying business people wanted "frequency"---not comfort. Then he moved to another airline, and never added RJs there. Sorry about the rant.


Bye Bye--General Lee

Giving up that scope that allowed the RJs in the first place hurts, doesn't it?