Dude, your post makes no sense... :blink:
Cut ALG/PDT out of the loop...? What loop are you talking about...?
Do you mean that LOA 91 made no provision for those who are still at PDT, that still wanted to come over to MDA after it belonged to someone else...? <_<
I am not sure how exactly
I am the one screwing you over because of the sale of MDA to Republic. Sorry if you were unable to get over to MDA if that is what you wanted, but like all things biddable... You have no one to blame if you were senior enough to have done so, or too junior to be denied the chance.
And as long as PDT remains a Wholly Owned Participating Carrier, there is no change to anything else in the agreement so far as I understand things... Are you saying that you no longer expect/want to be able to flow up to Mainline anymore, just because you balk at the idea of your own people returning for now...?
Let me make another thing clear, MDA did not exist for the ALG or PDT pilots, rather it was built for those furloughed from mainline. Only after all those avail. on the furlough list had been exausted, was the opportunity offered to those of us at the Wholly Owneds. So I fail to understand why you have an attitude about the E-170's as if they belonged to you somehow. Face it, MDA was merely an option for those at the Wholly Owneds to flow onto the Mainline property earlier... It was a B-Scale "leftover", for us to take advantage of only after the furloughed Mainline pilots were recalled (or decided not to go there). That any of us were able to bid into it should be considered lucky. Lucky that it softened the pain of the merger transition of ALG into PDT, and allowed upgrades and new hiring to occur at PDT this last year.
If that "luck" ran out because of furloughed mainline pilots leaving Mesa filled the recent classes, or because the whole operation was sold off the property, then that is just one more bad thing to have occurred on the long list of not-cool things in the last year (for everyone at U)...
Yeah, there is no exact language spelling out the process for flowing back into PDT, no moreso than there was any written details governing the flow up into MDA last year either. But that was worked out, and I assume that the process will be reversed (bid into open positions at PDT, not displace)
A Bi-Directional flow was what allowed me and 100+ others to flow up into Mainline/MDA in the first place. To all of the sudden get all pissy because the direction reverses is stupid. Afterall, none of the Wholly Owned pilots were able to move up to MDA because of our good looks...
to claim no mechanism exists ignores the fact that we have already been using it to flow up.
I do not usually use a "u" instead of writing "you", so you might have me confused with someone else. But it seems more that someone is seeking an actual process to be spelled out, rather than just a basic promise that one can return if necessary... Not a declaration of intent.
That, or I was trying to scare off those more senior to me ffrom bidding into MDA
All is fair in Love and War, eh...?
What are you talking about...? First off, I "did" nothing to anyone at ALG, other than leave to go to MDA. So chill out.
The fact is that like most of this situation most of the details have been left tobe worked out later on down the road. No one expected the Wholly owned pilots to be able to bid up into MDA when we did, and no one expected the possible chance of any number of us being furloughed from MDA looking for a return.
Honestly, I do hope it gets worked out for those who would like the chance to get back to the Dash. But I would prefer to remain with the E-170's as they move over to Republic, or seek other opportunities (JFJ or outside) if I am fuloughed from MDA.
I enjoyed my time at ALG, but that company, and that exact situation really no longer exists. If I have to return into what would be a new base, and a new way of dong things...Then I might as well move onto a new airline altogether and seek new challenges/opportunities...
And the part about people not liking me... "sniff, sniff" That was mean.
I am sure are a pretty lovable character yourself...
Anyways, good luck to you and the rest of PDT, in whatever happens to ALL of us here at US Airways...
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