If you want to be 100% accurate (and Moak's letter was not), Northwest pilots were the first pilot group to provide full medical/dental coverage for furloughed pilots. It was 1992.
Further, we got them Jumpseat cards that allowed them full access to the jumpseat while on furlough...and placed 40 of our pilots with KLM on a 2-year gig to keep them employed.
We repeated the COBRA coverage in 2001.
We also went on strike to end our B-Scale.
"Facts are meaningless they can be used to prove anything" (Homer Simpson)
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