Comair updates?
02-10-2011, 08:13 PM
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We have all been "educated" as to why a pilot group can not use ALPA dues dollars during a merger or acquisition. ALPA doesn't want to be funding both sides of the fight. Example: Northwest & Delta. Each pilot group needed its own merger fund aside from ALPA dues to pay lawyers to make arguments about seniority, domiciles, etc.
But Delta and Northwest had always been considered career airlines. You wouldn't usually quit one of those companies to go to a bigger and better company.
What of the circumstance that someone is furloughed from Comair and goes to work for another airline. Then by some miracle (for Comair) this "other" airline decides to buy Comair from Delta.
This furloughed employee has paid into the Comair merger fund by coercion and force and now is actively flying at his or her new airline and must pay into a merger fund at that airline in attempt to protect his job and seniority from Comair.
Why is it OK for this person to be funding both sides of a merger battle but it is not OK for ALPA to do so?
Do our retarded reps not understand what they are doing here? It is time to return the Merger fund. 33% of the people that were bullied into paying that ransom money are no longer at Comair. These 500 or so pilots are owed this money back.
The bottom half of the new (1000 pilot) seniority list should not have to pay, or not have to pay nearly as much as the top half. Everyone knows how the bottom half would get screwed in an integration.
Of course, the real truth is that there will never be an integration of Comairs list with anyone.
But Delta and Northwest had always been considered career airlines. You wouldn't usually quit one of those companies to go to a bigger and better company.
What of the circumstance that someone is furloughed from Comair and goes to work for another airline. Then by some miracle (for Comair) this "other" airline decides to buy Comair from Delta.
This furloughed employee has paid into the Comair merger fund by coercion and force and now is actively flying at his or her new airline and must pay into a merger fund at that airline in attempt to protect his job and seniority from Comair.
Why is it OK for this person to be funding both sides of a merger battle but it is not OK for ALPA to do so?
Do our retarded reps not understand what they are doing here? It is time to return the Merger fund. 33% of the people that were bullied into paying that ransom money are no longer at Comair. These 500 or so pilots are owed this money back.
The bottom half of the new (1000 pilot) seniority list should not have to pay, or not have to pay nearly as much as the top half. Everyone knows how the bottom half would get screwed in an integration.
Of course, the real truth is that there will never be an integration of Comairs list with anyone.
Last edited by samballs; 02-11-2011 at 04:33 AM.
02-11-2011, 05:32 AM
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They're just dangling a carrot trying to get people to stay offering ATPs.
02-11-2011, 05:55 AM
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Talked to a DE out at Lunken for a while the other day and he laughed when I told him about this. Even he is aware of how Comair is telling folks there is a hang up somewhere with getting approval to type everyone. He says there isn't really much to get hung up on. Mainly just approval from the Feds, but he thinks that is pretty much a non-event. It was almost as if he was aware of exactly what is going on behind the scenes with Comair dragging their feet. Good luck guys! Hang in there. Or don't
02-11-2011, 06:13 AM
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Wasn't it for FO's taking differences According to the penguin (Briner). If so, that is not a lot of people who would get them anyway. Most guys in the right seat of the 700 have been or can hold Capt. (most likely have ATP). And anyone senior enough to bid and hold the 700 now has already been a CAPT. (got the ATP). So what is so good about, best case scenario would 50 guys get a ATP.
02-11-2011, 06:15 AM
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They just want people to stay around for summer then they will say "DL has stopped funding for this, so we will be speeding up furloughs". I say this will happen around oh I don't know the night before thanksgiving. Soaper seemed to like to give bad news that night.
02-11-2011, 06:24 AM
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That's when I got my bad news! I never got the chance to thank them for being so thoughtful.....
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