Originally Posted by
Laker24
I think just collectively stomping your feet and refusing to abide by your written agreements is a poor excuse. Just my $.02. Give your West friends a call. Ask them what they really think now.
Yes I am a West pilot. If you read the transcripts as you said you did then you would know that the MOU was presented differently to the West and the East. That was admitted by your own counsel during the trial and acknowledged by Silver. However it wasn't enough to trigger her definition of a DFR. You are right the West lawyers screwed up.
But that doesn't make your position righteous. No more sour grapes here. Doesn't help anything. Good luck with your remaining 16 years. Hope we can all recoup some of the staggering financial losses suffered over the last decade. The temptation is to wish financial ill upon the East but that would just hurt the West pilots, for whom i have great respect, as well. So best of luck to you.
You could have saved us a bunch of time by saying that in the beginning. If YOU read the transcripts, then you know that the AOL leaders knew exactly what the MOU said and meant and that they were advising you to vote for it for reasons other than it's purpose. The west tried to trick F it, it's a clear as day.
Do you guys ever look in the mirror? Do you ever question AOL and it's leaders? Do you ever think that maybe, just maybe you should have given Wye River a chance? I have 27 years of dealing with this pilot group that makes me believe that you could have had the Nic in place for as little as a 5 year fence. No, you guys fought for Nic or nothing, unaltered. So be it.
I have tremendous respect for my group too. I have tremendous respect for some west pilots. I got to know one of the C18 and would put him up there with any pilot, anywhere.
Your comment about a "lonely cockpit" seemed like a thinly veiled threat. Is that how you meant it? If your group deserves the respect you give it, it will leave this at the cockpit door.
There is still a chance to salvage something from this. The SLI protocol has not been set. If the west would stop listening to AOL and listen to more just like Mitch Vasin, then maybe we can do something for all of us.