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08-23-2020, 04:06 PM

#51

WHACKMASTER

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Originally Posted by HulkaBurger

Awesome. As if on cue, the Chief of the AirTran Malcontents appears. 🤣🥳

Wouldn’t want to disappoint you baby

08-25-2020, 06:35 AM

#52

HalinTexas

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SWA bought ATA cert. for pennies. Took one L1011, the slots/gates at DCA, LGA and MDW (no slots), took no employees. CBAs only matter if the airline is solvent. BK courts can abrogate contract to offer some return to secured creditors.

08-26-2020, 07:10 AM

#53

Varsity

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Originally Posted by HalinTexas

where is the ATA cert today?

08-26-2020, 07:31 AM

#54

tanker

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Originally Posted by HulkaBurger

That's a stretch. Those aircraft belonged to Southwest and that's who leased them to Delta.

I take it you're another of the malcontent AirTran pilots that are constantly b*tching about SWA. Why didn't you just quit and go to Delta back then?

No I’m not FAT I’m RSW. I disliked it when GK got rid of the 717s but kept all the pilots. It didn’t impact my seniority as all the AirTran pilots were junior to me. I felt sorry for the junior SWA pilots who now had pilots brought over that were senior to them but didn’t bring 80+ airplanes.

08-29-2020, 10:56 AM

#55

sailingfun

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Originally Posted by tanker

Another example of selective enforcement by ALPA. AirTran had a clause in it’s CBA that basically said if aircraft go to another airline the pilots would go with them. ALPA would not let the AirTran pilots go to Delta when the 717s went to Delta.

The aircraft went to Southwest. When Southwest later decided they did not want them they were returned to Boeing. Boeing leased the aircraft to Delta. A contract can’t attach a pilot group to airframes forever. The pilots correctly went to SWA per the contract.