Did you participate or ever listen to the APR 15 2011 phone Q & A with your SWAPA Negotiating Committee ?

If you did not - that is understandable. Only a small percentage of the Southwest pilots ever did. Later in the phone call it was asked and the answer was there were only 170 something that had been on the call. Don't know how many ever listened to it later on your union site.

Direct question several times. What happens if the AirTran pilots force the negotiations to Arbitration? Direct answers by your NC chair and a few others on the committee. I was more specific earlier when Shoelu first challenged my knowledge of the call all together. Then, he was more interested in all the possibilities how I may have heard the call.


Another person asked about if the AAI guys are mad at ALPA. I would say at least approx. 120 were. That is one of the reasons they filed a lawsuit.
ALPA ATN members knew about the threat of non-integration followed by losing their jobs if the AirTran pilots did not accept a negotiated deal vs. following the process agreement and going all the way to arbitration.
The difference between SWAPA and ATN ALPA - SWAPA was telling their pilots the day after the Process Agreement via a phone call. ATN ALPA tried to cover it up and deny. ATN ALPA broke the Process Agreement by not allowing what was agreed to - pilot vote on any negotiated deal. It was written in the Process Agreement. Even SWAPA was asked directly about that and said so during that 1:40 + minute phone Q & A the day after it was signed. ATN ALPA put that out the day after it was signed in an Executive Summary. Yet, ATN ALPA MEC with just a couple of folks prevented it. All according to the lawsuit.