Originally Posted by Pilot41

As I understand (I have never worked for either, and have no plans to due so anytime in the future) it TSA pilot had the opportunity to avoid all of this. As I understand it TSA rejected the opportunity to have one seniority list for both carriers. It would have resulted in a 3 year contract extension, not good but maybe better than what you have now. The real problem as I see it, and this is from an outsider looking in, is that TSA pilots were negotiating from a point of weakness. The reality is in the current economic environment one needs to pick their battles, the facts are with thousands of pilots on the street pilot groups have very little negotiating power. It seems to me that there was zero hope of stopping GoJet from coming into being, TSA pilots had little power to do anything about it, and so what was the ultimate goal?