Update - US Airways Recalls

[BenderGonzales]

Anybody see that rumor on the other website? Posted by a guy who calls himself A320av8r:

"Company is sending out ~1700 recall letters.
This will be all the way to the end of the list.
You will either accept recall or forfeit recall rights.
Again, this from a very reliable source.
Looking for ~220 on this next recall for July time frame."

According to the contract, a furloughee is entitled to bypass recall to E190 F/O forever if he/she so chooses. So, who threw us under the bus? ALPA or the company...and if it was the company, will ALPA grieve? Or exchange the furloughees for more comfortable seats in the bus to the employee lot?

 

[PHXFLYR]

Oh, but Bender, Green and his ilk would like to take advantage of the 2500 retirements that are going to occur in the East over the next 8 years. They care not about you or your prospects at the new airline. They would like to see themselves upgrade before an East pilot hired in 1989 ( I'm guessing Green was hired in 2000/2001 ).......



TP[/quote]


Uh...no. Bender,Green and "his ilk" would have liked for nothing more than to have been just America West pilots and have nothing to do with this goat rope of a merger.


PHXFLYR

 

[Turtle21]

Anybody see that rumor on the other website? Posted by a guy who calls himself A320av8r:

"Company is sending out ~1700 recall letters.
This will be all the way to the end of the list.
You will either accept recall or forfeit recall rights.
Again, this from a very reliable source.
Looking for ~220 on this next recall for July time frame."

According to the contract, a furloughee is entitled to bypass recall to E190 F/O forever if he/she so chooses. So, who threw us under the bus? ALPA or the company...and if it was the company, will ALPA grieve? Or exchange the furloughees for more comfortable seats in the bus to the employee lot?

While dmbshts on the other side continue to panick about seniority integration, they fail to notice that USAir sucks too bad to even get people to come back.

 

[PHXFLYR]

But I'm sure you will return eventually now ,won't you?

PHXFLYR

 

[Rabble]

What makes you think that PHXFLYR?

Many of us have found greener pastures and are hanging on to that seniority number for as long as possible simply because it offers us something that is very, very rare in aviation -- an insurance policy.

 

[Swaayze]

Anybody see that rumor on the other website? Posted by a guy who calls himself A320av8r:

"Company is sending out ~1700 recall letters.
This will be all the way to the end of the list.
You will either accept recall or forfeit recall rights.
Again, this from a very reliable source.
Looking for ~220 on this next recall for July time frame."

According to the contract, a furloughee is entitled to bypass recall to E190 F/O forever if he/she so chooses. So, who threw us under the bus? ALPA or the company...and if it was the company, will ALPA grieve? Or exchange the furloughees for more comfortable seats in the bus to the employee lot?

He got clarification that his source was not talking about the 190s. Sounds like they expect to hit the bottom of the list for Group 2 or better for the next (150-200) recalls that are rumored to be coming very soon. Given that they've been through 1000 or so to get 160 for this recall, and with only 600 to go, I suspect they're right.

 

[PHXFLYR]

What makes you think that PHXFLYR?

Many of us have found greener pastures and are hanging on to that seniority number for as long as possible simply because it offers us something that is very, very rare in aviation -- an insurance policy.

Maybe so. But sooner or later a decision will have to be made> What I don't seem to understand is if these "greener pastures" you mention seem to be better than what you had at USAir,why even entertain the thought of coming back? I just don't get it,especially for those who have been furloughed twice .


PHXFLYR

 

[FLYLOW22]

Maybe so. But sooner or later a decision will have to be made> What I don't seem to understand is if these "greener pastures" you mention seem to be better than what you had at USAir,why even entertain the thought of coming back? I just don't get it,especially for those who have been furloughed twice .


PHXFLYR

Seniority is everything. That's why.

 

[Lampshade]

Seniority is everything. That's why.

Do you mean longevity, right, because you have no seniority at the bottom.

 

[BenderGonzales]

if these "greener pastures" you mention seem to be better than what you had at USAir

That is exactly what makes the choice so difficult. What we HAD at USAir, no longer exists.