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Old 03-26-2016 | 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by disillusioned
There seems to be a lot of people who want to help the company out and that is the difference SW had for a long time. But I just want to remind the new guys (or maybe all the pilots) of what happened when this FO helped the company out. His reward was a couple months off without pay and I don't remember the company having his back. I may have my facts off, but I thought there was a lot of frustration on SAPA's part as they were trying to help get both pilots back on the line and there was little support on the company side. This of course was back in the day when we had a President that wasn't afraid to call the company out and be vocal to the pilots of what was going on.

Who knows, maybe this loss of license thing that SAPA is focusing all the resources on may have helped the pilots in this case? /sarcasm

This was also at a time when CS would "coerce" someone who was calling in sick from an outstation, guilt-tripping people about cancelling or delaying the flight and refusing to provide transport home. The FAA slapped the company pretty hard about this, too, since it was on the tapes. Now, they only get to say "okay, we're taking you off the trip."