Originally Posted by
R57 relay
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.
There are no false illusions and everything you have stated is purely speculation. The fact is without a doubt that usair was bankrupt with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. AWA was NOT bankrupt and any statement to the contrary is simply false.
Now since we are speculating, whose to say that AWA would not have merged with another carrier? I see you fail to remember that usair was not a first choice but rather a second in AWA's airline merger plans. Its safe to assume had they merged with the first choice usair would have been left to liquidate and the pieces picked off for pennies on the dollar.
Usair has survived and you are piloting aircraft here today for no other reason than that merger so yes you have benefited at our expense. This company has hired pilots since that time some of which are flying as captains today while west pilots 12 and more years senior to them are being held hostage by east mandated greed. This is further evidence of the east benefiting at the expense of an entire pilot group. I am sure you will come up with some self serving excuse to explain the above but the fact still remains.
WD at AWA