Originally Posted by
7576FO
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No one will ever know what would have happened if TWA had selected Boeing (just like Continental) as a bailout suitor or if selling their soul back to Satan-Carl Icahn would have resulted in a different ending to TWA. Don Carty and AMR offered to acquire TWA and preserve jobs. Out of 24,000, only 1,800 were saved, mostly because the NAAtive unions on the property stapled all TWA employees at the bottom of the trash can, and some of them with limited (5yr) recall rights.
Yep, you got me, only the Flt Attds, , gate agents, the dispatch/schedulers, and mechanics except in Kansas City, LAX, JFK were all stapled. Only 85% of the TWA employees were stapled to the bottom.
The pilot group only 65% were to the bottom, my apologies.