liveupthere

She is a bit abrasive for sure. BUT, she is a phenomenal unionist and we are extremely lucky to have her fighting on our behalf.

McNugent

After being on the receiving end of her odd welcome to United speech I certainly had my opinions. The first thing that came to my mind after her intro to ALPA at UAL was a pretty resounding WTF. I had to explain to the non-airline guys in my indoc class that what she represented wasn't par for the course.

After flying with her and getting to know her a little more, my opinion has definitely changed. It all comes from a good place with the best of intentions. She'd bend over backwards to help her fellow pilots out. The delivery may have been a little tone deaf, but I can't fault someone for being passionate.

Half wing

Scabs wear Alpa pins too. The 787 check airmen doing my IOE was a scab and wore 3 Alpa pins. Disgusting individual.

jsled

CAL scabs are different. They are ALPA members in good standing. That's the way it went down when CAL pilots decided to come back to ALPA.

CLazarus

Dadgummit, a few days back I tried to get this thread back on track (ya know, fleet issues/rumors). It instantly derailed again for several pages of discussion on scope and whatnot. Maybe it is time for a dedicated scope thread after all:

The Scope Discussion Thread

I'll give putting this thread on track another go - someone posted on the other forum an extremely thin rumor that we were looking at some used 737-600s. A separate poster noted that the -600 had been added to an AMM of ours somewhere (AMM = Aviation Maintenance Manual it seems). No tail numbers were added with it though.

I don't think the rumor is true, especially since I can't imagine a change happening to an AMM before a purchase is announced. But, buying some used -600s on the super cheap would be a pretty slick way of filling the 76-118 seat hole in our fleet, for a while at least (and only 69 -600s were ever built). I realize the annual CASM of -600s would be relatively high... but that could be cancelled out if the purchase price were low enough (a number of ex-SAS -600s are parked so I'm guessing prices would be rock bottom).

A while back I asked folks to post their takes/reasoning on what we'd be doing with the low end of our fleet. I took the answers given and gave them cheeky names. Anyone like to comment or give their own cheeky name for this one?

azdryheat

Trying to stay on thread.

From a leasing company guy I know:

EasyJet A-319's coming off lease in another year. Placed 10 with UA and trying to place another 10 with us, for a total of 20.

guppyflyer

I very much doubt we would buy a small sub-fleet of CFM powered A-319s.......but what do I know!

pilot772

Yes cause we would never have one fleet with more then one type of motor. (cough cough 756 fleet)

82spukram

Although not all the parts would be interchangeable we do have another fleet with the CFM-56. You wouldn't have to train the technician just stock some different blades and some other parts. Would it be as efficient as buying A319 with V2500 nopE. I am sure if the price is right management wouldn't even be bothered. After all they just closed a base to reopen a the base and countless other waist of money. This expense would be a rounding error.

MasterOfPuppets

how do you feel about that 77-300ER sub fleet of only 18?

They kept a sub fleet of 22 747s for years......