Well, I guess that's another way to weed the U East seniority list of malcontents. Doug could use that as an excuse to park 30% of the fleet and furlough/downgrade and have more spare aircraft (for the "broken" one's) and double the reserve pilots. The Line holders could all fly minimum fly/pay lines with huge rest blocks.

Then when the illegal job actions continue, the terminations will stick. Yep, if I were Doug, I'd give them the rope for them to hang themselves with.

Might be the only way to salvage this hopeless mess in the long run...........