Originally Posted by
Wiskey Driver
Ok lets just be honest here for a moment shall we. So you statement was he gets much greater advancement vs a stand alone. Ok so the very same can be said of that whole merger. The east was dead prior and since has been given new life at the expense of an entire pilot group.
This thing will be over before it starts simply due to the fact that the new company is not going to go on as before nor will the DOJ allow it to merge under those conditions. The company is not going to let itself be sued and the APA will not allow themselves to be held up for years while a court decides that an arbitration is an arbitration. Douglas will finally be forced to act and based on the companies letter to the NMB they know the only out is force the the east into submission and now they have the numbers with the APA to do it.
I am sick of this whole mess and its an embarrassment to even tell people that I work for this outfit. There was an agreement and binding is binding period end of story.
WD at AWA
The east has not been given new life at the your expense. The combined company is MUCH stronger because of the merger. You perceive that you have not shared because you compare it to your false illusion that AWA was going to be able to continue through the worst recession since the depression and skyrocketing fuel prices unscathed. You wouldn't have, and any thinking person can see it. The Nicolau award was a potential windfall for a few senior east pilots and about the bottom 60% of west pilots and the bigger group said "Over my dead body!" It may be over our dead body, we'll see, but so far you guys have done nothing to change it.
Binding is Binding, period. That's some deep thinking. Death is about the only binding thing in this world. Marriages, countries, contracts, and for a few even taxes dissolve. You want you Nicolau bind, but you were pxxxxx about the binding affects of the transition agreement.