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Jan 11, 2006, 2:30 pm

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Originally Posted by BearX220

This sounds awful. So much for Doug Parker being the peoples' white knight. Is there any chance a US 767 could be cycled over to this route?

There is a clause in the ALPA transitional agreement that in essence allows one trip to Hawaii to be flown by US (East) pilots, and one trip over the Atlantic to be flown by HP (West) pilots until the workgroups and certificates merge.

I expect they did that with the anticipation of either running a widebody to Hawaii or running a 757 to a "thinner" European destination (GLA in the winter?).

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