I never said there was not a significant amount of camaraderie between the two groups. After all, the flight attendants did honor the pilots' picket lines. As for the plea of the FA union leader, that's the official excuse for returning to work before the FAs had signed their own back-to-work agreement, after having pledged not to do so. The other is that ALPA leaders feared that their own unity might be crumbling. Both sides are presented in Flying the Line, Vol.2.

You might also tell about how the UAL pilots settled with Ferris, having once pledged not to leave the 570 behind, with the understanding that their seniority would be decided in court. After several rounds of legal machinations, the 570 finally settled their seniority battle in 1992, some seven years later. That part is not only in George Hopkins' book, but also comes my way from a recently retired (last year) UAL captain who lived through that period and with whom I kept daily contact while he was on the picket line back in '85. He expressed his own reservations about going back to work without a definite agreement to take care of the 570.