Originally Posted by
Packrat
You're right about everything except the very last line. They weren't/aren't comparable to scabs. Scab is a term for only one kind of person...someone who will willingly cross your picket line to take your job.
Save the scab term for those who earn it by their actions. There are still plenty of real scabs floating around the industry. Some employed in the most unusual places.
I am pretty confident there are some former “Freedom A listers” (scabs) on the Virgin seniority list who crossed the line for Jonathan Ornstein (Mesa CEO) to circumnavigate 70 seat scope flying CRJ 700s for Delta back in the early 2000s. I was a displaced into becoming a “Freedom B” pilot when the moved the ERJ145s on the Mesa Certificate over to the Freedom Cert in MCO in 2006.
But hey, we bought Virgin and APLA forgave those individuals when they brought ALPA in to give them acquisition protection.