Originally Posted by Radioactive

And that would result in firings of pilots doing illegal job actions and furloughs as contracts are lost.

I think one of the reasons for the SAI purchase was to ensure system integrity in the event of a 1224 job action. The SAI pilot group, on a whole, is much more amenable to toeing the company line as most of them are focused on their own job security and that can only be brought about in the ACMI world by system integrity by resisting illegal union "suggestions".