You do know the ruling applies only to flight attendants right? Possibly a thing of the past for FA’s, but I doubt they’ll close them for pilots too.

 

Pilot litigation is pending. Could very well end up being ruled the same.

 

There's no way that this is settled and over. If this ruling holds up the way we're currently interpreting it, no airline will base crews in California. That's simply not going to happen. Something will give.

Don't believe management's sky is falling rumblings. This ruling could be a major victory for labor and they know it. This is the first major crack in the railway labor act. Who knows how the unions can leverage this. Maybe the railway labor act comes crumbling down or at least gets revisited? This is huge. The court is saying that states rights overrule Congress's mandate to regulate Interstate commerce. It's ironic too that a conservative court just handed labor a huge victory.

These are revolutionary times. This court has flipped the table and there will be many unexpected consequences. Something that nobody seems to be talking about: yesterday's EPA ruling could drastically undermine the FAA. These are drastic changes to how government oversight works. The way this country has done business during the modern era has been completely flipped.

 

I think your a bit overzealous….easier solution for the airlines is to just close crew bases in CA.

I hope they don’t, and that there is a solution though. As it would disrupt the lives of many in the industry, and really reduce overall QOL. Not to mention flight options for the general public out of CA airports.

 

Go make a thread about it on airliners.net.

 

They will see massive attrition if they closed SFO and LAX.

 

I completely agree

 

The plan going back to the beginning of the litigation was to scale the CA bases to handle turns only…eliminate SAN and shrink Lax and SFO…Small increase in Regional flying. Lots of DHDs and layovers in CA for the other bases…

 

They already have

 

Just spitballing….

FA Union proposes some extra $$ compensation to work through/not have “break”,…. Written into contract, Contract supersedes State law…. done.