May/June Alpa CX Article
Just got my May/Jun 2002 Airline Pilot Magazine, the official magazine of the Air Line Pilots Association in the United States.
There is a four page article entitled:
"Cathy Pacific Pilots on the Brink? Does ALPA have a Dog in This Fight, (Or Is Their End of the Titanic in the Water?)"
If anyones interested in it, I'll scan it as a jpg and email it out to you. It'll take a couple of days to do, as it's a holiday here in the US, but as I always do I eventually get around to it.
By the way, I have an Asian wife, and am planning on an earlyy retirement from United, and will find work in Asia.
However, I would not cross the CX hiring ban even as a direct entry Captain - and I am typed in both the 777 and 767.
Don't worry about those taking upgrades.....if the 49 get their jobs back, they'll eventually fall to their own seniority.
And if new hires boycott, the command position is absolutely worthless if there is no first officer the aircraft stays in the chocks.
United was shocked in the late eightes when 25 767 copilot positions were unbid in ORD - because the pay was so low, people kept on their narrowbody equipment . At that time new hires were not allowed by union contract into the right seat, and it posed quite a problem for United.
By the way, those new hires that honored the strike in 1985 and did not take a job (Class of 85) wound up ahead in seniority of the 539 pilots that hired on as scabs, albeit it took five years to accomplish that.
Kim