The MEC's *DID* communicate, before this flight ever left the ground, both MEC's agreed it was not struck work, the AirTran pilots were in constant communication with the AirTran MEC about it to make CERTAIN it wasn't struck work, and as long as those provisions were followed, it seems cut and dry to me.

As far as iahflyr goes. yeah. I'm gonna have to call flame bait on that one too.