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Old 03-04-2008 | 09:16 PM
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Just to clarify.

Even though the original pilots at Freedom were eventually re-integrated into the Mesa seniority list, they were still the ones who gave Jonathan Ornstein the tools to destroy Mesa's CBA and intimidate the pilot group with the choice of:
vote for a highly concessionary, backwards contract, with the worst work rules in the industry, or lose your job...

The original pilots at Freedom went there to gain seniority, to undermine the CBA, to help Ornstein build his 'regional empire' and to allow the work and effort of thousands of pilots over the years, who had built the company to where it was, to be destroyed and flushed down the toilet.

Even though I love my job, enjoy the environment I work in, work on forgiveness daily, and don't hold personal grudges against anyone... I still have a professional responsibility to myself and to my colleagues, to not let these type of pilots contribute to the decay of our career.

I have forwarded the original, pre-ALPA, Freedom list to my current carrier's pilot hiring department and also personally handed it to several of the Captains I've flown with who conduct interviews, as well as FO's who I know are involved in the interview process. I hope the same thing is done at FDX, and other carriers as well.
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