BP6 A's UAL's Pass Program

For all retirees and active employees

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For all retirees and active employees
Sending this forward for everyone's information.
Karen
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Karen, would you please, forward this mail to your F/A friends, both 
retired and still in the grind.

It's amazing these well paid exec's couldn't come up with a incentive 
program without hurting one group to give to another.
Must be off the street types who are not aware of the value airlines 
emp's place in their pass benefits. Or am I being too kind?

Hope all is well.

Jerry S
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7 Aug 2008 11:00:00 -0700

To all retiree's and current employees

Please, take a moment and read the following letters/Email's regarding 
the new BP6A incentive program. If the intent of management was in 
question
before, the response to my original Email to Tilton by, SVP-Airport 
Operations, Cargo & UAX SVP-Operations, Scott Dolan Joe Kolshak, will 
make it
very clear.

This program is a direct insult to both retiree's and employees who 
someday hope to retire with passes. So please, pass this on to anyone 
you feel, gets it!
Just maybe, . if enough retirees and employees complain about this ill 
conceived program they will change it.
A few prayers may help too!
Jerry

Following:
My response to Scott Dolan's

Scotts response to my Email to Tilton

My Email to Tilton

Scott, I appreciate your prompt response. Yet, you minimize the effect 
that this program will have on 'some retirees and employees' historic 
ability to fly space available'. In effect, if goals are met, you will 
have taken away our ability to fly space available. Every active 
employee regardless of their seniority will be boarded before us.

I worked for forty years, with positive and loyal dedication. 
Retirement passes were always expected. Yes, I realize they are a 
benefit and not a right. I would never have believed that you're 
disrespect for retiree's could be so cold and complete. You could have 
provided BP6B's and achieved close to the same affect without slapping 
retiree's in the face.

You could save face by changing retiree passes to BP6A's along with a 
brief explanation to the employee group. My guess is that most active 
employees do not want retiree's to be trampled upon. They will know 
what they can expect once they reach retirement. Further, good 
employees will respect you for realizing you made a mistake and that 
you corrected it. Any amount imagination could create an incentive 
program that would provide an award for good performance without 
punishing others.

How you would feel if your full fare tickets were taken away from you 
and your family had to give up free travel?

Please, reconsider this terrible insult!

Gerald Sciarine
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BCC: To every UAL employee and retiree I have an Email address for.
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Thank you for your email regarding our recently announced A:14 
Reliability Program.

Reliability is critical to the success of the company, and we have a 
specific need to make significant improvements. We are taking a number 
of steps to improve reliability, including structural changes to 
aircraft schedules and adding more ground time, but we also need an 
incentive for employees given our goal to be in the top tier of 
industry reliability performance as we head into 2009. So, we created 
a new incentive program for the last five months of 2008 to reward and 
align employees for improvements in on-time arrivals, with a focus on 
D:00 departures and measured by A:14 performance, that is in line with 
our aggressive goal.

We specifically chose BP-6As as the most relevant, meaningful and 
cost-effective incentive we can provide in line with the challenge 
we've set for ourselves. We recognize it is a significant change for 
an employee incentive program to have passes at this boarding priority 
level. However, our business need is critical, and we purposely 
focused on the last five months of the year to make a significant and 
tangible difference in our operations. Our current A:14 performance 
reduces customer satisfaction, creates significant re-work for our 
employees
and results in hundreds of millions of dollars annually in delay and 
cancellation costs, which includes increased expenses for fuel burn, 
mishandled baggage, and customer re-accommodations.

We understand by distributing these passes to all active employees in 
the event we achieve our goals this program will affect some retirees 
and employees' historic ability to fly space available. However, the 
current environment is intensely competitive, and we are taking this 
step to help drive operational performance that is critical to the 
ongoing success of our company.

Regards,
Scott Dolan Joe Kolshak
SVP-Airport Operations, Cargo & UAX SVP-Operations
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Mr. Glenn Tilton
United Airlines
P. O. Box 66 100
Chicago Ill, 60666

Dear Mr. Tilton

As a retiree who spent thirty of my forty years at United Airlines as 
a management employee, consistently promoting the company line, I’m 
appalled, broken hearted, and madder than hell. How could you, in the 
name of an employee incentive
program, take away retiree’s boarding priority?

You could award BP6B priority free tickets instead of BP6A’s and 
have achieved the same incentive, without taking away retiree’s hard 
earned benefit. The award tickets would still go ahead of BP8’s, which 
is what employees are really looking for.

Was this a simple oversight, which can be corrected? Or was this a 
decision a cold, heartless and calculated one?

This program, at first, may be welcomed by the employees. However, 
once they realize that even after retirement their benefits can be 
taken away from them on a whim, it could be seen as a negative and 
actually demoralize them. Why hang around until retirement if the 
company is just going to go back on their promises, even when it’s not 
necessary.

Since you have never had to stand-by for a flight, you could not fully 
understand or appreciate how important and even precious an employee’s 
boarding seniority and priority is. Bottom line, it’s a very big deal 
and when you take it away it really hurts!

Please, take a few minutes to review and reverse this terrible decision.

Sincerely,
Gerald Sciarine
LAXCS-Retiree