tical on his a$$!!"


As far as "junior manning" goes, it would have to be with current and qualified Airbus Guys for HKG and 757 guys for CDG. Right?

So, a bid comes out with a butt load of 757 slots for CDG and MEM. No one bids the CDG slots, but everyone who wants the 75 bids Mempho. So the Mempho guys go to training earlier than they would have normally and then immediately get inversed to CDG. But they can only do 3 of 18 months, and they run out of crews really dang quick to do the STV rope-a-dope. To the guys who want to bid the 757 MEM: "I know what you're thinking.... Was that 2 months of STV in the last 18 or 3.... To tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've lost track... So you have to ask yourself one question... Do you feel like sitting your lilly _____ (insert color of your posterior here) a$$ in a hotel in CDG only to have your concubine ride coach for 8 hours just to try to requal with 'Krull the Warrior King' only to find out that due to all this stress even the blue pills don't work.... Well do you? Punk!!"

The Airbus guys present a different problem. They have the Subic hostages to backfill HKG until the smoke clears. All they have to do is make room in MEM for them and then STV their posteriors right back to HKG (in reverse seniority order, of course) which means the junior bizzos in MEM get humped by the "returning" senior Subicians.

It would seem that it is a vertiable butt load of pain, confusion and best laid plans falling apart if such a scenario were to play out. After all, unhappy pilots are apt to execute schedule improvement initiatives.

Sounds like to me that this is one hot potato that no one wants landing on their desk. Career disipation lights will be flashing in alot of corner offices if this one goes down like this. That's even worse than the Master Warning Light Flashing with the accompanying aural warning: "Ding Ding Ding... Checkride Fail!"

I can see it now, the guys responsible for the impending disaster when one of the biggest pushes for growth in a number of years blows up because there's no one left to dry hump:

"Honest. I ran outta gas. I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from outta town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake, a terrible flood, locust's. It wasn't my fault!! I swear to God!!"

Personally I think this whole thing has backfired on everyone... MGT, because they thought they had the MEC on the cheap, MEC because they felt they couldn't get anything better, and the pilot group, because no one in their right mind would jump on this grenade. Medal of Fred or not.

Best thing that we can do is vote it down and go back to the drawing board for a more reasonable deal...

Cathay or better,

TSD