baseball, nice short history of that crazy messed up period. So many people I flew with couldn't figure out why the mainline voted against a single seniority list then. I mean, who wouldn't want 2000 pilots instantly tacked on and take some control over the regional flying at the same time. Guess this explains that. On the money about how they can change the name of the Union but if the don't change the people then nothing changes. As painful as it is and will be for awhile, one thing is for sure, all that has been washed away. Even our later union leadership just didn't seem up to the task, although there were some great individuals thrown out with the bath water.

Also thought McCoy left because somebody accidentally let her see a spreadsheet and she noticed that reserves flew fewer hours than lineholders (duh) and figured if they flew as much as lineholders she could add 200 more pilots to the post 9/11 furloughs. She did, and then there was no slack in the system at all since reserves HAD to fly 80 hours just to complete the block hours, but there were no reserves for these "reserves" and they lost flights when things got tight. Plus the Iraq war was getting under way and when the extremely lucrative CRAF flying was offered, we couldn't take it because there were no pilots left to fly it. When Bethune heard the reason why we couldn't get on the CRAF gravy train he blew a gasket and summarily fired her, with parting gifts of course, and the 200 were recalled after just 11 months gone.