Baron50:

""Well we didn't mean word for word."

They did mean it word for word and when confronted with the manpower issue they knew there would be a transition period of adjustment between the two contracts. And this was straight from the man himself.

And the S/O re-alignment was mentioned by the AMR management as a, "see what UAL pilots did..."

It was not a "re-alignment it was as ell out because it only applied to those furloughed (1978/79 hires) and any future new-hire on the property while employed S/Os retained their pay scales on DC-10 and 747. as a teenager would say, "dude you sold em out with a b-scale!"