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Old April 29th, 2008, 17:31   #67
Baradium
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Default Re: Wow... United and US Airways to Merge

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Originally Posted by Airdale View Post
Well thats my point. Is that, yeah it would eventually be a great thing, but the number of pilots and their families affected would be great as well. In a years time, I wouldn't have the time requirements to get hired at mainline. So those of us that are trying to build that time would in turn lose our jobs unless our company brought on smaller airplanes. Which I really wouldn't care. I didn't come here to fly a particular aircraft. If that were the case, I'd of went overseas and flown the big metal for what they are begging for.

If Captains moved up to mainline as FO's, than how would us FO's become Captains on equipment that needs to be sold? This is confusing.
More pilots aren't going to magically appear... if this happened, the mins at majors would drop accordingly to put the pilots in seats.
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