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Originally Posted by Pineapple Guy
Bucking, I agree with most of what you say. But "we" never divested Compass. "We" represented their pilots, but we never owned their flying. If we had, there wouldn't have been a need to have Compass. The NWA pilots would have simply done that. And as you point out, unless we own the flying, what's the point.
We owned their flying until our leadership sold us the exact same bad legal advice they sold the T-Way pilots, so they could use our jobs as bargaining credit.
I've always maintained the pilots with valid DFR claims were not the Comair pilots, but rather, the mainline guys.
(and I'm NOT encouraging anti ALPA litigation, the differences with us and T-WAY are that we ratified our scope deals and the statute of limitations has expired long ago. I am just pointing out the same extremely flawed legal reasoning was used in both instances to convince the mainline pilots to give up the most important parts of their contract ... in fact, I wonder if it was not for the adoption of outsourcing at the mainline carriers, if ALPA would have developed and sold the whole notion that scope would be waived in bankruptcy)