Originally Posted by
iceman49
Still not getting it....who purchased Colgan, the company? The NMB saiid that the SLI was the remedy, so the lists were merged? Or are you saying that ALPA should have not allowed Colgan to organize. Air Florida had a similar operation, they did not organize because of a merger possibility..however it did help down the road....but simply the "ops group." (in house union) was a good ol boy group that was ill equipped to deal with what was happening at Air Florida.
Colgan was non-union when they were purchased by Pinnacle management in 2007. ALPA had no business organizing a pilot group that was a direct scope violation of another ALPA pilot group. That's the very definition of a DFR.
Question for you 80, if Delta decides to buy, say the new Eastern airlines, and operate it separately from you guys, should ALPA organize those pilots. Yes, or No, and why?