Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

What had been Comair flying was being outsourced to other members of the DCI portfolio. Comair was afraid of exactly what did happen to them. Today they are a shadow of what they used to be. Lawson was trying to protect the job security and career progression of his pilots.

After all Delta wanted Lawson to negotiate something with his management, Lawson wanted some help in return.

Was he a jerk - sure. Was he offensive - absolutely. Was he trying to get the Delta pilots to negotiate - yes.

At ASA we welcomed our Delta brothers with open arms. We figured it was better to build bridges. Further - we told him it was wrong to use furloughed pilots as bargaining chips.



While Lawson shot us in the back on several occasions and there IS bad blood, he was trying to protect his pilots - that was his job.

Just because I understand what he was doing does not mean I condone it. But it is pretty easy to see what has happened to that airline under Delta's stewardship.