Okay okay--I'm not actually going to deny FNGs jumpseats for usurping our contract/sidestepping our union. They're going to get a stern lecture though.

I have spoken to some DFW/IAD Captains who seem fairly serious about denying jumpseats. They'll probably just get in trouble with mgmt over it, and then they'll stop doing it. And no one will probably actually do it.

And no--I most certainly would not have accepted the iPad reimbursement or additional $1,000/month. My old man was a diehard union guy, and I even got pulled out of school once to attend a strike--if he found out I was taking money no one else was getting, without agreement of the union, he probably would've flown to PHX and smacked me across the head, even as a crotchety old man.