New United assumes 70 seat plus scope
07-25-2010, 06:34 PM
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Not gonna happen! Average 5 yr F/O RJ pay is $40/hr. Are you serious?? Average 5 yr 737 pay is $95/hr. You wanna really kill our profession? Agree to fly an RJ for $40/hr. The RJs WILL be mainline. Let the MEC negotiate the pay. It will be substantially higher than any regional. In this regard our MEC has the upper hand. Scope is ours to give away, not for management to take.
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07-26-2010, 06:36 AM
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07-27-2010, 05:22 PM
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Scoop has it exactly right. All this chest thumping don't mean jack. UAL ALREADY has 70 seaters flying under UAX. Why would they simply give them back to mainline pilots....out of the goodness of their hearts?
If you total up the cost of flying people on the mainline, you have to look at UAX flying jets....PERIOD. HOWEVER, word has it that some of the UAL heavy-hitter pax have expressed interest in flying on the mainline vs. UAX...so, the company wants to put them back on the mainline. If the UAL ALPA MEC plays their cards right, UAL pilots WILL be flying 75-100 seats SJs in the VERY near future!
JD
If you total up the cost of flying people on the mainline, you have to look at UAX flying jets....PERIOD. HOWEVER, word has it that some of the UAL heavy-hitter pax have expressed interest in flying on the mainline vs. UAX...so, the company wants to put them back on the mainline. If the UAL ALPA MEC plays their cards right, UAL pilots WILL be flying 75-100 seats SJs in the VERY near future!
JD
08-04-2010, 09:05 AM
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You know it!
Ya'll could start accumulating XJT (like I have been and have been recommending for the past 4 months). Call it a strike fund if you want. If we end up loosing scope through either commission or omission, the regionals partners will see stock and market capitalization increases. You may get furloughed because of scope, but at least you'll see investment gains.
08-04-2010, 11:15 AM
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Very nice! Looks like you were right, but for the wrong reason. This is the first step in restoring scope (as I have been saying) - consolidation for the regionals. I expect two more regionals to be going away as well.
08-04-2010, 01:32 PM
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08-04-2010, 02:50 PM
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