Originally Posted by Denny Crane

I believe it was at a meeting in Peachtree City to sell TA-1 on the last contract (TA was later voted down for first time at Delta), he got so angry he started yelling and said if this got voted down the next step was a PEB. I wasn’t there but I believe there was a phone video of it somewhere.

Denny

Originally Posted by FangsF15

In 2015, at the height of the discontent over TA1, just before it was voted down, there was a grassroots movement that peaked during open discussion an ALPA (C44 LEC?) meeting. Several hundred unhappy pilots were making their voices and objections heard to the MEC, including Donatelli (who was the MEC chair at the time). He was getting exasperated over his 'baby' clearly about to go down in flames. He basically castigated everyone in attendance who was against TA1, disgustedly yelling "if you vote it down, do you know what will happen???? PEB!!!!!" Basically trying to use the fear of a PEB to get us to vote for it.

It went down as the dying cry of the hard sales-job that was TA1. TA2 ended up being massively better, there was no PEB, and it turns out despite the CEO RA's assertions of "there will not be a better deal" - there was. I for one will never believe the company's claims of "this is our best deal" again.

*Edit - Denny beat me to it. And yes, there is Cell video of it somewhere...