Originally Posted by
notadog
Don't kid yourself. As far as the company was concerned, the MOU was not going to prevent furloughs. The MOU was about footing the bill for 125 DC8 crew members who were sitting at home collecting full pay and benefits.
BM tried his usual "let's make a deal" and the company laughed all the way to the bank.
The furloughs were coming, the company just was slick enough to wring $100 million out of the pilots in spite of it.
The above is only opinion/speculation, we will never know what might of happened as BT/TK achieved their goal and the MOU failed.
I will take BM's tactics over BT's in your face rhetoric any day. At least BM's "let's make a deal" helped allow me to collect a paycheck for another year.