Originally Posted by
captainv
Jay, I'll let Evil defend himself, but I'm guessing he was hired years after this all went down, so his picture of what occurred is about as factual as my view of what happened during the strike. All I know is what I've been told, by both Comair and Delta pilots, and the two versions disagree wildly. If you think you can find out the "truth" by reading this board, you must not follow the Delta L&G thread.
I've heard countless versions of what happened between JC and the DAL MEC. Believe what you want, it doesn't really matter anymore.
But here's the thing - do you really think Comair management decided not to hire Delta furloughs because of what JC Lawson though about it? If anything, had he supported it, Comair management would jumped at the chance to squeeze something out of us in exchange. (This is the same management team than had us stop carrying a small basket of starlight mints because it would save fuel. Seriously.) But of course, JC didn't, so here we are.
My new-hire class had furloughs from American, USAir and others who had resigned their seniority to come to Comair. Some carriers ignored the resignation letters, others didn't.
As you said, water under the bridge.
Understood. And no, I'm not looking for the truth on this board. I was obviously not in the meetings personally, but I'm also not gleaning my facts through third hand information about something that happened years before my time. These are the things that went down during my, and ~1300 of my colleagues personal hell.
No, I don't think that OH did what they did because Lawson said so. Of course not. They had a policy in place because, at that time, among regional carriers, they were a heavy hitter. Maybe THE heavy hitter. When 9-11 hit the fan they had a choice. Play nice, or play hardball. They went hardball. Fine.
The problem came when OH's union volleyed their opinion. They chose to back management. It's not just the seniority resignation issue, read the whole letter. Lawson wanted more and bigger RJ's for OH in exchange. WHO does ths benefit? You know the answer.
After that, DAL guys (probably unfairly) expected nothing less than a mass revolt of Lawson's line guys. That didn't happen. Add to that, the seniority-grab lawsuit, and I don't think it unrealistic to think that the average DAL guy might have a bad taste in his mouth for the average OH guy.
(my iPad seems to not like multi-quote so I'll finish in my quote of Evil)