Originally Posted by
ERflyer
I was here. I remember that the company was afraid that flying would not be covered due to harassment by the 49ers. I do not remember any trips not getting covered or a significant decrease in green slips. I remember green slips being flown by different people who were not necessarily senior.
The bottom line is that there will always be enough pilots to fly green slips. The only limit will be their FAR block time limitations.
Your experience was very different from mine. No one was flying GS’s on the 727. What everyone was doing is flying GSWC. Every GSWC awarded put another trip in the pot. We had numerous cancelations when the stack got to big. Operationally Delta was a mess with lots of canceled flights across the network even after reducing scheduled flights by 2% Those statistics on canceled flights were how the company prevailed in court. The 3 judge panel ruled that even though the union did not start and in fact tried to get pilots to end the no GS campaign they had a duty to control their membership and big fines would follow. The same thing happened at American and APA was fined over 50 million dollars.
The 49er’s mentioned were not by the way just pilots harassing other pilots. I know one pilot personally who simply wrote one email to a friend asking him to only GSWC. It was nicely written without any harassing tone. That one email got him sued for 1 million dollars.