it's a brand new contract they signed back in august or so. the TSA contract is 7 years old.

before the blojet contract was signed, they were paid exactly the same as the TSA pilots, minus the work rules (yay 6-day trips with the req. 24hrs off at an outstation right into another 6 day trip), pay protection, block or better, or any other thing we generally take for the minimum we'll work for.

the original 5 pilots were hand selected by mgmt and were generally disliked by the rest of the pilot group (or so a lot of captains told me) before they went scab.

and TSA ALPA did fight against the creation of blowjet. however, the judge ruled against them in that their scope clause didn't apply (it said Trans states airlines, not trans states holdings in the contract) and hulas could do as he pleased with his "entirely seperate company." except they used the same training dept, recruiting office, and dispatch for a couple of years.