Originally Posted by
MistyFAC
The difference is Delta and Continental both owned the respective carriers. There were flow agreements and both were considered a great way in the interim to get your experience up while enjoying mainline like benefits and a much better wage than what Chautauqua was offering. Tell me, if Rechaublic wasn't there to lower the bar and lap up the scraps after the demise of the wholly owned airlines, would they still be around? Wouldn't they still be providing a pathway to a major airline job without bending over to do it? As an outsider looking in, this marriage on Frontier and RAH could have been great if they were kept seperate with some sort of flow through agreement. I guess that wasn't enough and RAH pilots felt entitled to much more. It's history and greed repeating itself in different form over and over. Also, to comment on your contempt comment, you bet I have contempt towards companies and pilots that suck the life from a once great profession. F9 pilots, I support you against the cancer of RAH. Just remember there are more like us that value this profession and say no to the degredation.
Misty, you should remember that FAPA agreed to binding arbitration. As for zooropa, you can take a look at all the lawsuit documents on PACER or on the IBT website. You'll find FAPAInvest LLC as a party named, not the FAPA pilots. Last time I checked, a few weeks ago, the LLC was limited to a few of your old FAPA leaders.
To me, it seems pretty clear. A day before the election closed, RAH signed a deal involving representation issues, that carried over into the period after the election. Thereby FAPAInvest and RAH colluded to remove negotiating/representation power from IBT after the election. Funny how FAPAInvest was only formed a day or two before the election closed, and RAH realized the NMB wasn't going to reverse its single carrier ruling based on future conditions at the company.