Itsallsogood said:Answer: Yes and Yes (I believe you did ask 2 questions.) MDA's Preamble stated in the first paragraph that Mid-Atlantic was a wholly owned to be flown by the furloughed pilots of USAirways. Did you ever fly a plane that did not say Express on it? And do you think you should jump ahead of all other J4J's?
MDA's preamble was written while they were working on getting the 170's on the Potomac operating certificate. Had that certificate been used, MDA would have been a wholly owned airline and you would be correct. HOWEVER, we all know that did not happen. MDA could not use the Potomac certificate without many more months of delay ... So, they decided NOT to use it and NOT have MDA as a wholly owned airline. They instead put the 170's on the AAA operating certificate. When they did that, it became a mainline operation. J. Glass testified to that in the courtroom. The 170's were no different than Metrojet. Those 737 pilots were treated differently with different work rules, but it was a plane on the AAA certificate. Were Metrojet pilots mainline? Could you imagine what precedent would be set if AAA ALPA allowed aircraft to be operated on the AAA certificate by pilots not on the AAA seniority list??
Jump ahead of other J4J'ers? Are you serious? I don't know ANYONE that came from MDA that would think that. My name is on the AAA seniority list below all original APL pilots. They are senior to me and will be offered recall before me. As it should be, they are senior. I don't know where you came up with the idea that anyone is trying to jump seniority. That can't happen and won't happen, because it's simply not true...