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Old 08-15-2008 | 11:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Min Fuel
Otto. While maybe not struck work, everyone knew what Lorenzo was doing and that was taking resources from TI and giving it to an alter-ego organization in house. He was 'whipsawing' the pilot group and the obvious shot across the bow was that TI was going to shrink while Apple or NY Air (which was first) was going to get TI's assets.

Lorenzo did the same thing when he took over Eastern. He moved or sold assets to for a pittance to other companies he had formed. He sold one of the few assets that ever made money, SODA the Eastern reservation system for pennies on the dollar.

A true dirtbag...

Agreed 100%, but this is not much different than the airlines and management of today. Especially at the regional level. The pilots are not to blame. I could never call them scabs. Management is a different story, but I use other terms for them.
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