Originally Posted by
Captain Bligh
Make no mistake about it, the CAL scabs in particular have seen the biggest windfall of any demographic in this industry already. The seniority they stole decades ago, affects everyone junior to them every bid month. The age 65 rule change benefitted them the most, more than any other identifiable group of people. Fight as you may, their "share" of any retro or signing bonus will be at least equal to anyone else's, because to do otherwise would harm the the innocent in similar seniority strata. At least in your example, the money didn't go to the Fleet Quallers disproportianately. I am afraid that to join in your argument via your logic would be folly for hundreds of former New York Air and Pan Am pilots to name a few.
Please don't put New York Air in the same sentence with Pan Am. While New York Air pilots did not cross a picket line per se. New York Air was non-union and did fly repainted TXI DC 9s in direct competition with Eastern. read Flying the Line Vol. II pp121-122