Originally Posted by
Mesabah
At Mesaba, we knew that selling out to MAIR would possibly result in every job being lost at Mesaba. This fact created the unity necessary to prevent the loss of scope. This is the very reason management did not or will not go after anything larger than the psychological limit its pilots will accept. If they over step and pilots start voting with their feet, the game is up.
It is interesting to read your account, followed by that of the TWA pilots here, starting about page 15:
http://www.twapilot.org/TWA%20vs.%20...m%20Report.pdf
ALPA's counsel to the TWA pilots was that it was highly unlikely that the Court would reject the pilots' scope agreement, even when AA had made the waiver a condition for buying TWA. A waiver of TWA scope would leave the pilots "defenseless" and was "the ball game."
ALPA National Counsel then jumped in with advice in support of a scope waiver.
This is a paper from a Plaintiff's Expert, but is objectively written. It shows how MEC's can fail. Carl, if you've been looking for something to bolster your position, this is it, pages 17 & 37 particularly.
A reader can also see the exact road map that played out in Delta and NWA's bankruptcies.