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Old 08-18-2009 | 01:45 AM
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Default Informing the Public
Originally Posted by Kat Milliker
OK, I am going to try this again, since my last post was deleted-
Originally Posted by Kat Milliker


Boogie, For all your talk about "informing the public", we've had three Informational Picketing events. How many have you attended? Let me guess, you were too busy fetching strollers, pushing wheelchairs and kissing babies to show up, or were you picking up a trip "to help Scheduling out".

Guys like you are the reason this has dragged on for 5 years. Quit being part of the problem, and start being part of the solution.



Mission Canxd

When I say informing the public, I do not mean Airtran, I means as all professional pilots. You need to look beyond the Airtran picture part of this.

I caught grief on this forum for suggesting that Airtran (NPA), a year ago with the last TA, should not be negotiating at that point. I argued we were ill prepared to do so. We should not have been trying to set a basis by which other pilot groups contracts would be compared to (see Airtran does it for this amount of $$). We were not organized nor unified to do that. I suggested that we wait till SWA, Alaska, AMR, worked out their contracts. I knew they would all get better deals than we could at that time. I suggested it was better for us to compare ourselves to them after their contracts were negotiated. I think luckily for us it will workout that way. (Now we can say see Alaska does it for this)
I am not saying Airtran pilots should let the others do the heavy lifting. I am saying we would have done more harm than good as a basis of comparison

We need to inform the public as an industry, not as an airline pilot group. Airtran’s MEC is a small part of this.

See the bigger picture

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