Got news for ya. Don't flatter yourselves.
Believe me, there are NO UA pilots who care less about flying ANYTHING US Air operates much less salivate over cherry picking your assets. You have no assets worth the drool. All we want is continue to fly what we currently own and to continue with the carrier expectations, for better or for worse, that we currently enjoy. If you call that screwing another pilot group then so be it.
Hypothetically, let me ask you that, in the case of one of Bagdad Bob's Imaginary Corporate Transactions, would any US Air pilot consent to a 20 year fence on equipment. You fly yours - We fly ours???...I didn't think so.
The problem that you don't seem to grasp is that the perceived greed of the U Air pilots and their designs on our equipment was well known at United (as evidenced by the preceeding posts). Most of us agreed that on paper the route structures meshed well but not enough to compensate for the over zealous ambitions of some of the more boisterous US Air voices. Consequently, these loud voices were the ones heard the clearest and the bailout was effectively squashed by the pilot group.
You keep clinging to this date of hire thing cause thats all you have. You don't have career expectations, large airplanes or good routes. There is nothing that you can bring to a merger table cause what you have, nobody wants!
Tumbleweed