Any Wien pilots remember Bud Rude?

[Flyer1015]

Wien Air...

There is currently a lady Captain at United who has her own "Ask the Captain" column for a major national newspaper.

She is a TWO-time scab... once at Wien, and after she left them for United, she scabbed again at United.

Just who do you have to sleep with to get your own column after being a two-time scab?

 

[BORAT]

Ah, yes...I remember this "lady"

 

[Tahomos]

BR loved the scabs!!!

 

[Ace McCoy]

An excerpt from a Denver news article:

She (Meryl Getline)obtained a DC-10 jumbo-jet rating by the time she was 27, then flew for the now-defunct Wien Air Alaska before signing on with United in 1985.
"I had always wanted to go with United, because I'd flown it as a kid and they treated me well. I also liked their routes, I liked their airplanes and I liked their paint job," she says with a laugh.

"But my timing was spectacularly off."

She first sought a position with United in 1977, but at the time, the company only hired male pilots, and her application was rejected. Only a few months later, United hired its first woman pilot.

The second time she applied, in 1985, she got an interview. But it was only a few months before the Air Line Pilots Association went out on a contentious 30-day strike, and her decision to accept an offer and start training on United planes later got her blacklisted.

"To this day, there are people who consider me a scab, even though I never flew a revenue-producing flight during the strike," she says.

It still sounds pretty scabby to me and now you say she was a scab a Wein? Not so nice

 

[Flyer1015]

Yes, she scabbed at Wien, and then at United.

 

[PCL_128]

Are you sure she scabbed at Wien? She's on the list as a UAL SCAB and the notes say she worked at Wien, but she's not listed as a Wien SCAB.

 

[Flyer1015]

Wien Air striked May 8, '77. I dunno in what way she's listed on the scab list. There was another thread that mentioned that she had been a scab at Wien.



I'll see if I can find some links. Everything I've found so far for her and the Wien Air strike is "archived" and I have to pay to view. I don't wanna pay.

 

[Boeingman]

Hmmmm letter to the editor time?

 

[BORAT]

I've got the Wien list at home...I'll check it...

 

[Cardinal]

"To this day, there are people who consider me a scab, even though I never flew a revenue-producing flight during the strike," she says.

How pathetic for her to argue over technicalities 20 years later. She wasn't one of the heroic 570 that kicked UA in the face. She was a Fleet Qualified pilot they hired for the express purpose of quickly placing on the line. The fact that the strike ended before this could take place is irrelevant.