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[lasttoboard]

Soon each of you will be informed of the new employee/retiree travel policies that will shape the new airline. Would anyone care to speculate as to the probable changes and the motivation for the change? I'm hopeful that everyone will feel good about the merging of two great carriers into one steallar organization.

 

[bluehenual]

Soon each of you will be informed of the new employee/retiree travel policies that will shape the new airline. Would anyone care to speculate as to the probable changes and the motivation for the change? I'm hopeful that everyone will feel good about the merging of two great carriers into one steallar organization.

 

[bluehenual]

Being a United retiree obviously I hope my boarding priority does not change. That said, I to am happy about the merger. It was not all that long ago that I thought United might go out of business and leave us without any pass privileges. I had friends and family members that worked for TWA, EAL, and Pan Am. They have lost most if not all of their industry privileges. So for me a bigger, stronger United is a good thing. I have friends that retired from Delta and they have a lower boarding priority than active employees. This does not seem to hinder their ability fly, they travel all the time. One more thing to consider is the much larger system and expanded schedule. We will all have a lot more options. So whatever the new policy is, as long as I can still fly for free and take advantage of all the interline deals I am a happy camper.

 

[strfyr51]

Soon each of you will be informed of the new employee/retiree travel policies that will shape the new airline. Would anyone care to speculate as to the probable changes and the motivation for the change? I'm hopeful that everyone will feel good about the merging of two great carriers into one steallar organization.

As with everything else it seems to be going the way Of CAL with their Management First approach which I frankly find distasteful. Stripping Retirees of their Boarding priority is pretty Lame But if they let them board by accrued seniority that has a ring of FAIRNESS to it. I've got 27 years seniority and even NOW I get wherever I'm going just fine. By the rime I retire I'll have 33 years seniority and were I to get to USW my accrued seniority at the MINIMUM then I would be more amenable to any change. But boarding VENDOR management Before employees?? That's not going down the gullet very well with me.

 

[lasttoboard]

As with everything else it seems to be going the way Of CAL with their Management First approach which I frankly find distasteful. Stripping Retirees of their Boarding priority is pretty Lame But if they let them board by accrued seniority that has a ring of FAIRNESS to it. I've got 27 years seniority and even NOW I get wherever I'm going just fine. By the rime I retire I'll have 33 years seniority and were I to get to USW my accrued seniority at the MINIMUM then I would be more amenable to any change. But boarding VENDOR management Before employees?? That's not going down the gullet very well with me.

Just curious, did you respond to the survey?

 

[gatemech]

The current UA pass policy if the fairest. I take the management first thing as a slap in the face. It also
tells me that the management team feels they are better than the rest of the employees. All active
employees are the same. The only thing we as union employees have left these days is our seniority.
I just feel a management employee with 5 years on a trip with family should not board before a 25 year
or retiree. So many of us have paid our dues. I would think that the CO employees would want the
seniority method. That would put them in a better priority than the present. That depends on CO
seniority. I don't know what the average is. The survey was confusing and poorly done. I read it very
carefully as not to choose the wrong choice.

In my gut I feel that management will prevail. While numbers are small they protect each other without
regard for the people doing the real work.