MinRest

Well, it didn’t work for you. You guys had 800 people picket Omaha. 800 with your family members, pets and goldfish. Airlines of similar size are having larger numbers of only pilots. How many NJA owners walked passed the pickets in Omaha? My guess is a couple handfuls at best. Thousands, even tens of thousands of passengers pass informational pickets at an airport terminal.

When passengers see potential issues of having their flight cancel because of a strike, they book another airline. Airline pickets also appeal to a lower economic demographic than NJA could ever reach. It is so much easier to get the traveling public on board with the message from an informational picket than any NJA owner. How many NJA owners are gonna sell their share and fly SWA because you guys brought an inflatable alligator to Omaha?

Your Hail Mary “big” move netted you a “now is not the time” response from management. Meanwhile WestJet got an AIP hours before their strike, and American got an AIP days after the results of their strike vote. You have no other cards to play because you voted them away. How are you still so delusional to believe that airline pickets and the section 6 process are less effective than NJA pickets lol. You are elevator bellhops to the richest people on the planet. You will never get owners to side with you beyond them just making some empty comment about how you should be paid more.

You shot your shot, and it didn’t go the way NJASAP told you it was going to go. How many more promises are you going to believe before you start holding the union leadership accountable?

I am as pro-union as they come and work for ALPA in two different volunteer roles for the airline. But let’s call a spade a spade.