Originally Posted by
av8trup2late
That's not what happened. One Falcon flight was conducted by a management pilot CA and a moron new hire FO. The rest of the aircraft (4), mostly based in KIWA, that were supposed to be sent in, never left for the east coast. The Falcon pilots, mostly former Midwest Airlines former ALPA pilots, informed the Spirit MEC Chairman that they would not, and DID NOT move the aircraft. Shut down.
Be careful with accusations.
av8, I don't mean to be confrontational, and maybe I'm not reading this right,….but according to your post, at least one flight was dispatched and flew struck work, right? As insignificant as it was, it still happened, which validates the previous poster's statement. Either non-management pilot(s) flew, or they did not fly, struck work. As much as I agree it was negligible, the fact remains that it DID take place.
Good news is that incident was a watershed event as the subsequent and very public pounding the FO took served as a wake up call to all would-be scabs of the world. We respect the fact that the rest of the Falcon pilots had the brains and spine to refuse to fly. We have no reason to believe that anyone would ever be stupid enough to cross a picket line again, especially an angry and uber-unified picket line like what we expect to have here.