Originally Posted by
Reroute
Carl, they sued individual pilots. The company made a claim against individual pilots, who were identified through, among other things, forum posts. They became known as 49ers, since originally 49 individual pilots were sued by the company, including I believe, every member of the MEC. They were all served, I believe, at their home, late at night.
That is all correct. My neighbor was sued for 1 million dollars. They served his wife at 1am with a stack of papers that totaled over 500 pages. He sent 1 email to a friend asking him not to fly overtime. The web board posts were both from the Dalpa Web board and a private web site encouraging no overtime. He went through hell and lots of lawyers for a long time.