Originally Posted by 1515greenlight

Seems that this past week when Sully & Skiles were on Capitol Hill to discuss things; the incident, skilled pilot retention, pension reform for the airline industry and other things, our illustrious leader made sure he was there for the meetings and photo ops.

Oops...not so fast.

Seems that he did such a stellar job of FUBAR'ing the mess at Airways, both Sully and Skiles refused to have anything to do with him as did the Congressmen. So "fearless leader" was escorted out and the hearings and private meetings happened with the Congressmen and Senators and the ones Sully and Skiles wanted in attendance...CAPA (Coalition of Air Line Pilots) and the Director of the Airline Division of the Teamsters, a fellow by the name of Captain Dave Bourne...the same guy who took his pilots through bankruptcy and instead of getting their contract raped, they kept 12% annual raises and got stock options and profit sharing. One of his guys, a senior F/O, told me the strike price for the options was $17.00 and he sold his at $60.00. Then he showed me his profit sharing. 11% of his 2007 guarantee netted him $19,000.00 pre tax.


Damn......not bad. What did NWA get last time, about $1200.00?

And the wire says Atlas made money again last year, so I guess they get another check soon.