Originally Posted by
Margaritaville
If you had more than 5 minutes in the airline industry, you'd realize that competing airlines flying a striking airline's routes helps the cause, not hurts it. It apples pressure to the company, as they watch the competition grab their market share.
What would be scab worthy would be if alter ego pilots who work for the same parent company started flying routes they don't normally fly. For example, the Comair strike, if Delta and ASA had started flying Comair routes they didn't fly previously.
This is correct. The point of a strike is to pressure YOUR company, not all the other airlines. As long as you're not earning money for the striking airline it's just business.
Anybody know how code shares fall into that though? Ie say a code-share airline allocates flying to cover struck work? Has that even happened?
Originally Posted by
Margaritaville
Now before you try a ha ha gotcha moment, that may diminish my uncalled for comment that you are scabs, but you are certainly still cockroaches for flying mainline equipment at regional compensation. You're putting downward pressure on every other contract in the industry. And you're proud of it.
Do not use the "S" word here for anything other than it's doctrinal meaning, ie crossing a picket line.