Originally Posted by JiffyLube
No you are wrong. But I will forgive you, since your were most likely in High School when all this happened.
Okay, I can admit it if I was/am wrong. Please educate me, o benovelent Skygod.
It had not one thing to do with severence penalties.
The TWA / AA acquisition had one big stipulation on it. That AMR buys TWA in bankruptcy court. AMR wanted this so that ALL PREEXISTING CONTRACTS could be null and void. AMR chose to keep TWE carriers b/c they were cheaper to operate than AE. They could have got rid of them like all the other vendors they chose to drop.
So what then about the clause in Chautauqua's contract that if American cancels the contract prior to its end (2013 I believe) they have to eat the cost of all the 140s? Of course its cheaper to operate a current contract than absorb the cost of a bunch of airplanes!
So it is ok to screw anyone long as it is not you? You don't think every company makes decisions solely based on cost? The whole reason that you are an "airline pilot" today is b/c you fly your emb for 5x's less then I fly a 737.
Nope, never said it was okay to screw anybody, and I don't work for Trans States or Chautauqua so that is a moot point as well. We could argue about how AA screwed TWA pilots, but that horse has been beaten so long ago its not even important. Same can be said about the flushbAAcks taking all the upgrades at Eagle.
I'm not in any of the sandboxes mentioned, I just think its asinine for some pilots to say "hey Eagle got screwed by Trans States, so its okay for GoJet to screw them". That logic fails the WTF test every single time.
Son you are very pipely and have alot to learn in life!!!
Thanks for the lesson, dad. I'll keep it in mind
