Alfa,

As with you, I didn't keep up with the DAL issues in your Ch-11 IMHO, NWA management wanted AMFA off the property and there were IAM issues after they were voted off the property that added to the issue. NWA spent a lot of money to exterminate them and they did.


To say the NWA F/As failed is being a bit naive. The DAL F/As compensation may be better but there are other areas of job security that was being threatened. The fact is the NWA F/As pushed the envelope in unknown Ch-11 territory that no one else did. You say the company imposed but there is no determination that such a contract would be enforced after the company left Ch-11 and the F/As could have pushed the issue. You can't make someone come back to work if they don't want to.


In hindsight, it makes sense why NWA settled the F/A contract with improvements than what they were first offered. They also settled the AMFA strike as to not have issues after CH-11. IMHO, they wanted a neat package for exit financing and to be ready for the merger. It doesn't matter now as management can do what they want with the other employee groups with no worries about pushback. Those issues aren't my fight.


I don't want to infere anything from your post but are you suggesting that if under Ch-11, the pilot group should take management's first offer and not be a pain to them in being afraid of having a judge impose a contract?


I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but RA's modus operandi is this, "when the going gets tough, RA will get going". I just saw DS getting on an airplane last week. I have no illusions if things head south again and the ax has to fall, you will see some of the characters we dealt with in CH-11. These guys mean business and the first sound people will hear is their heads hitting the floor.