IronCityBlue
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Well, that statement says it all. It doesn't matter who paid the fuel bill, who paid the leases, etc. The pilots that flew these aircraft were furloughed mainline pilots. These pilots could not bid back to A320's, B737's, A330's, etc. Only when they were recalled back to the mainline carrier could they then bid back to this equipment.
How can they be furloughed USAir pilots when they are flying USAir planes and getting paychecks by USAirways? And not all of them were furloughed. About 40 or 50 of them went to the 170 without a single day of unemployment or even a furlough notice. Yet Nicolau labeled them as furloughed as well. That is one of the strongest cases they have at getting the award revisited. While arbitration is final, the arbitrator has to be correct in the methodology he lays out. He said staple the furloughed pilots at that time because they didn't bring a job to the table. Fine, fair or not that was his decision. But many of those pilots were never furloughed.