Originally Posted by
justjack
shiznit- USAPA is working out quite nicely given the circumstances. Furthermore, if there were to be another merger in the future, because of the McCaskill-Bond provision, the USAirways pilots are in a much better position with USAPA. Again, if the company wants to merge any time in the near future, the East pilots will have to be made whole, one way or another. Of course, Mr. Parker has not shown any indication that he understands this fact any more than the West pilots have. Which is why I have little hope, in today’s environment that USAirways will survive. Mr. Parker could have brought the East pilots to parity with the West from the beginning. The West would not have been so overconfident that the East would capitulate and the East would not have had so much at stake. Mr. Parker was never insightful enough to be proactive and true to form, pilots behaved in their usual cannibalistic manner.
Reroute- the Nic will never see the light of day- the airline will go bankrupt first. As long as there is this much pilot-pilot rancor, investors will see it for the civil war, poison that it is.
The west was not obligated to do one d*mn thing (as was the east) other than haul their *sses to court and present their case.
All this "made whole" and "capitulating" talk is pure B.S.
It is an understatement that the East was WAY to overconfident about what the outcome would be going into all of this and it has remained that way ever since the rulings started getting dropped.
The fact remains that the East keeps losing their case and all they keep screaming for it "DO OVER!, THAT ONE DIDN"T COUNT".
Trust me I feel for the east...I think they've had a raw deal since the day they set foot on the property.
But they made their bed...ALPA or USAPA...doesn't matter who was running the show, their leadership has failed them for quite some time.
Perhaps it's time to unite and actually start winning some battles against management (tall order, I know).
It's natural to "want it all", but the easties haven't "got it all" for quite sometime...it's not like the screwing started when the merger came along.