I'll add a little info on this matter.
After our 30 cooling off period expired, the pilots of World Airways were able to begin self help. One of the flights was a flight from Houston to Luanda, Angola. The crew was Luanda and the union told the company that the pilots would delay the flight 12 hours as part of your self help program. The company responded by cancelling the flight.
This is the good part. They kicked the pilots out of the hotel and said, "get home on your own". Now if this were Newark, you'd say OK. This is Angola folks. We have armed escorts that take us to and from the plane and guard the crew at the layover hotel. Our management team kicked them to the curb. Thank god they are all safe now.
Here's the kicker. Not a single World pilot has crossed the line. Every checkairman except one (we will find out who he is shortly
) has quit and now World's shiny MD-11 is sitting on the ramp in Angola with no one to fly it home. What a shame
