Originally Posted by gloopy

First of all, what threats? Are you referring to the hiring issue? If I had a say, I wouldn't hire a former labor busting NAI lawbreaker, but perhaps they will slide on over to US airlines with their excellent 787 qualifications and stories about backpacking through Europe. I don't really care.

As for the definition of a scab, I never called NAI pilots scabs. I called them worse than scabs. At least a scab waits until you are on strike. You can at least theoretically avoid being scabbed by one by not going on strike. They can't scab if they have nothing to scab. Strikes are incredibly rare anyway, and even rarer are any serious modern management attempts to even try to scab. But NAI pilots would be illegally flying routes into our country in blatant violation of the very agreement they claim enables them to do so. They will sue and attempt to blackmail their way in (already have, and failed…for now...) and I hope they do not succeed.

If the law is ignored and they are allowed to proceed, I hope existing US airlines will bury them on evey single route they ever attempt. There is nothing their little labor buster dirt bag investors can throw at us before they run out of money that we can't easily defend against at massive, hemorrhaging losses for them while still being wildly profitable over all ourselves, even if we do take a sector hit for a while until they bleed out.