Originally Posted by
SlipKid
LOL.... Seriously?
Inserting 100% of the pilots from another group, whilst only keeping a small percent of their former airframes, was a GREAT deal for the SW folks?
Both pilot groups voted to ratify that SLI, and within a couple of
tenths of a percent of each other (around 85% IIRC) too.
You'd seriously
want to roll the SLI dice
again?
The only upside with either JB or Spirit, is that there's far less chance of having a bunch of scabs inserted in front of us on the list than last time.
Not a scab. In fact, I struck for almost three months at a previous carrier. AT had less of a percentage of scabs at the time of the SWA merger than CAL did but yet we took more flack for it. Believe me, their past actions disgust me just as much as they disgust you but out of 1737 pilots, we had 25-50ish scabs.
And yes, even with the loss of 88 B717s SWAPA pilots made out like bandits. They “captured” all the Cptn seats, stapled over half the FOs and gained relative seniority. Hell, the first AT pilot wasn’t inserted in until 1,500 pilots down the list.
Oh, and let’s not forget the aircraft orders that we had on the books for 50 NGs all at a time when SWA had zero orders and zero growth and yet SWA FOs had the delusional audacity to claim that their upgrade was somehow stagnated because of the deal?! Are you kidding me?
Go ahead. Your turn. I’ll be here to keep setting the record straight.