Originally Posted by
C17MooseDriver
Although the timeline was short, there was Alot more time than 24 hours. At one point, FAPA stopped calling Swapa back, thereby dragging their feet till time ran out.
The only people ever mentioning a possible furlough were FAPA. SWAPA or SWA never mentioned furloughs, and no pilot had ever been furloughed at SWA. FAPA used furloughs to scare the junior pilots to go along with them.
Finally, FAPA wouldn't agree on a staple no matter what. They wanted seat protections for their captains. They never ever ever said they would be willing to be stapled, on the contrary, they were looking for relative DOH with a ratio.
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How much time elapsed between the first and last face-to-face meeting between FAPA and SWAPA?
If furloughs weren't a concern, then why was there any issue with FAPA asking for guarantees of that? Why wouldn't SWAPA guarantee representation of any furloughees? SWAPA stated that any furloughed pilots would be represented by FAPA until they were on property, and wouldn't say what would happen to them after the integration when FAPA ceased to be.
FAPA wanted seat protection for captains because anything else would have been a windfall for SWAPA (300 upgrades) at the expense of FAPA (300 downgrades), which is stated as one of the things to avoid in SLI's.