Australian pilots can work for US regionals.
It’s all a matter of context and interpretation but I don’t think “hoards” is a word we can use for the current pool of applicants that AA/DAL/UA have waiting in their application databases. From what I’ve heard from the hiring dept at UAL, all 3 have the same 2500 employable applicants and the simple fact remains, that they are all hiring at experience levels that wouldn’t have been looked at, even 5 years ago.
No one is looking at FedEx or UPS and I’m not even sure they’re hiring.
The UA hiring plan has changed totally with the recent “issues” at Boeing and the FAA deciding the level of stupid mistakes being made, was enough.
As for E3’s, if they pay dues, then I’d think they’re afforded the same contractual protections as anyone else on a seniority list.
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Yes, that'd be my first guess as to how it would go.
... but I don’t think “hoards” is a word we can use for the current pool of applicants From what I’ve heard from the hiring dept at UAL, all 3 have the same 2500 employable applicants...
As for E3’s, if they pay dues, then I’d think they’re afforded the same contractual protections as anyone else on a seniority list.
As for E3’s, if they pay dues, then I’d think they’re afforded the same contractual protections as anyone else on a seniority list.
Yes, I suppose you're right about my use of hordes. I was only thinking in relative terms of the supply being sufficient at the moment to preclude the legacy carriers from considering E3s. But of course, I can only guess as I'm not privy to inside info; I can only see (or hear about second hand) what they've actually done. I've certainly heard the same statement about career-destination carriers all having only the same X,000 qualified applicants to share. That doesn't seem to have impeded their ability to fill seats and in their eyes, that's all that matters.
And I'd certainly expect a unionized carrier to see that any furloughs are done by seniority...regardless of other factors. But, management is management and therefore unpredictable.
Interesting subject here.
E3 renewal in hand a couple weeks ago. Guess I’m safe unless normal seniority based furloughs come to get me. Who knows what the industry will look like 2 years from now.
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