Help me understand the AT position here. Someone from AT please clarify. Drop the emotion, please. As I understand it AT brings a bunch of folks, many who have applied to SWA or had apps in, and desire to reap the benefits of the SWA pilot CBA for the greatly improved wage rates, and benefits in the pending merger. In addition they would like to also retain their CA seats, which could for many be another significant chunk of change. And they want to do so at the expense of the existing SWA pilots, most of whom could have worked at AT but rather went through the rather lengthy process of getting hired at SWA. Even some AT folks left to go to SWA, indicating how much better they thought of the organization. But when SWA tries to put some protections in place, which seem reasonable, AT calls them SWA a-holes for putting up resistance in this apparent equity grab. So I'm curious. Which do AT really prefer, the seats or the CBA pay rates? I'm having a hard time getting my brain around the belief, that AT really seeks both. How about they get a choice. The CBA or you keep your seat with the old rates, until all the SWA FO's have upgraded. Surely there must be some give in there.
