ahhhh, ooopps... V.P. in crew lounge yesterday (at ASA) says there is not going to be any hiring. They are going to continue to draft and screw over the pilots until Sep 30 when they close the base, then they will have more pilots than they need. LAX base doesn't open until Dec 1 but is so small it can't really absorb that much of the excess pilots in ATL. I predict that in Nov to Jan you will see 700 pilots displaced to the 200. If a contract get signed that all might change.
It is obvious that this is a Jerry (Lorenzo) Atkins ploy to try and break the union or have us get such a crappy contract that the SW pilots won't see a reason for bringing ALPA on property. Meanwhile, as the fight rages on, we are stagnant and quite frankly coming apart at the seems.
Sorry to give false hope, I was wrong. Again.