GVFlyer
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GEX,
Nothing prevents management from opening up Home basing to all the New hires. Like they do for NJI.
Why blame the Union? We asked for the same policy NJI has.
I'll take a short burst at that one.
I think the nature of the relationship between the pilot groups and management is significantly different. I've probably been to my last NJI Christmas Party at the South Carolina Yacht Club at Windmill Harbour as my friend at Okatie has moved back to Massachusetts, but at the last one, where Richard Santulli attended, his affection for NJI pilots was apparent.
That affection is deserved, the boys at the South Carolina Gulfstream Preserve have worked hard for and grown with Richard's little air force.
I don't think Santulli likes you guys that much. Where he's from loyalty is important. He still tries to run NetJets like it's a New Jersey family business. When he set up EJI, there were probably guys that could have done each job better, but he went with the men who had been with him the longest and had shown him something.
What you guys have shown him recently I doubt he views as loyalty, probably more like an attack on his bottom line at the company he built from scratch.
I doubt he will give you anything in the way he does for NJI because he feels that he needs to retain things such as a decent domicile policy for the next time you drag him accross the coals in one of your combat contract negotiations.
GV