Originally Posted by
madeinUSA
No, what I am saying is that your union leadership is only as strong as your pilot group. I'm not saying what they did was the right answer but it probably helped the bleeding at the time with respect to attrition. Which in turn helped all of us and probably equated to keeping a few more 200's on property. The majority of those LOA's passed during that time was the company throwing noodles at a wall to see what stuck. If it helped the company and all/part of the pilot group then it passed. It didn't hurt anyone. It just wasn't fair.
Agree to disagree, I guess. I see it as hurting many. And by not being fair does that by nature. In my opinion it actually hurt the company the most. It angered so many FO's and excellerated the already high attrition just to pamper a select few of the pilot group. Then to slow the excellerated bleeding the company offers the retention bonuses