I don't know where he stood on that issue, but the whole way it went down was disgusting.

The union didn't even want to grieve it. At all. They didn't care. They were forced to, and I think they were surprised when they were handed a slam dunk win that would have smacked the company down and given us unlimited leverage WRT that issue (IOW those jobs were 100% ours and the company would have had no choice but to deal with us on our terms or lose that premium flying and revenue completely and forever).

It was right around C2012 time, so we just threw in an exception to allow them to legally outsource what they were already doing in violation, much like POS15's AF/KLM JV language instantly forgave 4 years of imbalance with no intention to ever honor their end of the deal, and then still allowed them to go another 4% block hours lower than even that, forever, and be in complete compliance.

The large illegal (WRT our contract) corporate jet issue that came to a head in 2012 was a fight they never even wanted to begin with, and when some rogue hawks forced the issue, they were trumped by us simply giving it away with nothing in return because we (the ivory tower brain trust head shed) never wanted it to begin with.