Originally Posted by
Frank Rizzo
"Even the most bitter and irate FAT pilots accept the airline industry for what it is.....mergers, buyouts, downgrades, forloughs, and bankruptcies. What we don't accept is SWAPA & SWA management working in tandem to deliberately **** us out of our seats and seniority. THAT will forever make some of us resentful, and if anyone tries to claim that that exact deliberate and coordinated act didn't happen then they're just insulting my intelligence."
You summed it up nicely.
Admittledly.....yes I did. When two non-bankrupt carriers combine to make a whole and one carrier is so utterly pompous and so full of themselves as to suggest in SLI proceedings that all of our pilots be placed on probation (Yes, even our most senior captains), then it's clear that there's a problem with realistic expectations. A large part of this can be chalked up to many of those not being exposed to the 121 world previously.
DLA bought NWA, a bankrupt carrier. There was ZERO call to staple them or place them all on probation like there was with the NON-BANKRUPT AT/SWA merger.
I don't know, Rizzo. Maybe if you and I and our former pilot group got together to blackmail another pilot group into submitting to an SLI screw job, we'd probably be trying to make ourselves feel better by twisting the truth and reality, too. Ya think?