AA/US-AW. Now the fun begins.

do you commute out of pit? I think we always knew 100% was never going to fly. The alternative was even worse (going 100% to seniority). I guess this was the best compromise.
 
Yal should just be happy you commute on mainline. I commute out of an air Wisconsin domicile on their horrible planes and then we have dashes. Haha it is terrible.
 
skyw82 said:
do you commute out of pit? I think we always knew 100% was never going to fly. The alternative was even worse (going 100% to seniority). I guess this was the best compromise.
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Haha!

Thankfully, no.

I do have a two-leg commute (by choice) through a senior hub though. The only way it works week end and week out is the ability to simply reserve the jumpseat and not worry about seniority.

If this is how things are going, I'm probably looking at a pretty serious move to make things tolerable for the commute.
 
skyw82 said:
sounds like its a done deal.
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Far from it. What the APA (and the "Seniority Has To Count For Something" DFW crowd) fail to realize is who they work for now. If you've noticed at USAir, once something becomes "policy" decreed by management, rarely does it change. The APA can propose all they want. If Doug and Scott see that there's an enhanced reliability of people getting to work, they'll look at the proposal and say, "That's nice." and that'll be the last we hear about it.
 
PhilosopherPilot said:
Let's use my company as an example. Our most senior pilots have been here 15 years because we have only been in existence that long. If we were merged DOH with damn near anyone else, nearly everyone at my company would be integrated below most every other pilot at the other carrier. So our most senior captain would be junior to a ton of guys at US Air. They haven't really hired, other than the last few years, since like the 1990s. So a guy who is number 1 at my company would go to a place below most of the pilots in the new company. He won't be able to hold captain, weekends off, holidays off, etc., and that has nothing to do with a choice he made. Due to no fault of his own, he would be screwed. That's the definition of unfair.

So normally mergers do a blended integration with a combination of DOH and percentage calculations these days. Good luck to all involved in that hot mess!
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Nah, he inevitably made his choice to give up his US Airways number if he's that senior. :)

If we ever merge with any version of US Airways, there's gonna be a lot of angry people around here. I think we still have some guys waiting to see how this all shakes out with AA numbers with recall rights. I know I flew with one guy last year that's holding on to it until the last possible second. He's a 190 CA now, though, so I don't know if he'd go back. Depends on where he'd fall on the list I guess.
 
Are there furloughed airways guys with seniority numbers still?

I'm sure a lot of furloughed AA guys stay at jet blue. I'm sure it depends on how many years they have left, if they are captain, etc. I know a lot of 99 airways hires are there and at fedex. They would be stupid to come back.
 
AAPalmTree said:
Agree. USAPA is as dependable as a monkey with a gun.
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I'm still trying to figure out the conflicting letters from the attorneys and Bradford. The attorneys say they're done. Bradford says, "Nu uh!" If it were anyone else but USAPA, I'd figure they'd listen to their attorneys. However, remember who we're dealing with.
 
ERfly said:
Who the hell knows? The Illuminati is more transparent than The Wizards of Woodlawn. Their freaking egos are screwing with my career.
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Are you trying to get into an AA base? If not it's helping as the east has the most attrition % in the next few years. Screw them let em fight.
 
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