How come everyone assumes they lied?
I don't condone what they did with their laptops, but I can understand it. We've been tsunamied at Delta-North with information from this merger. It's alot of work just changing the pages with all of the revisions we get, let alone trying to figure out what it all means.
Not only have they changed our procedures a bunch of times, with multiple, sometimes unclear revisions to the changes, but everything else has changed; Our contract (think work rules), our bidding, our vacation, our benefits, our uniforms. We have two different company id numbers, about a dozen different websites to remember with passwords for each one. It just goes on and on and I know many of us are experiencing merger fatigue.
It doesn't mean that they should have been trying to figure something out on their laptops when they were flying, but I understand, not only the impatience to resolve one of the many issues we are dealing with, but also the burnout that many are currently experiencing that could cause someone to miss a radio call.
We should all reserve judgment until all the investigation is over and all of the information is out.