Originally Posted by sailingfun

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. Those statistics on canceled flights were how they prevailed in court. The judge 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.