No, you won't find any "public, on the record info". But, CAL was too shrewd for that. They knew to keep everything on the down low and use their CK Airman, left seat, right seat, and Jump Seat negotiators, and flight instructors to good effect.

It was the same approach that was also used to great effect to bring about the special deals for over age 60 instructors. Everything done via relationships and relationship manipulation. Prater-Abbot-Stankovich-Sturgel. That quadrouple whammy gave us the special treatment via those relationships. No other part 121 pilot group enjoyed such special treatment. Was dumb-founded as to how LC 171 lost the group grievance on the matter and was awe-struck no other ALPA pilot groups sued or filed grievances against the CAL MEC for allowing it to happen, even Allied Pilots Association, a non ALPA union was scratching their heads as to what Abbot had achieved, but hey, no blow-back so they kept pressing.


CAL was always careful as to what to write publicly. The tell tale was always an anonymously published "Q and A". You remember those? That's what the company put out about special one off topics and how flight ops and CAL legal viewed the issue du jour. Remember that Q and A getting pulled? Why? Because the FAA published a CAL Q and A and put it on FAA letterhead and tried to make it public law with that unique interpretation. No other FSDO in the country published it, and ultimately it was rewritten and then disappeared.

Sorry to go off course....Yes, the B word was mentioned, but done so discretely and via non-official channels. They didn't want to scare the investors or the board too much. Those in the target audience who needed to be scared or intimated to vote YES were indeed scared and intimated.