I smelled bullsh*t too when I read Bob's letter about an alleged "sickout." They just cooked it up to smear the Union.
Remember last year? They thought there was going to be a sickout then, too. Paranoid. For the other folks benefit on this board, last year, the paranoid management at Flight Options got it into their heads that the pilots were going to stage a sick-out or something like that during the busy holiday season. SO, to counteract the alleged sickout, which was never even hinted at or thought about by the Flight Options pilots, Flight Options management pre-paid TEN MILLION DOLLARS worth of NON-REFUNDABLE charter over the holiday.
So FBOs across the country were full of static crews and the ramps full of quiet airplanes. Flight Options customers had to walk through FBO lobbies full of Flight Options pilots and go get in some chartered airplane instead of their green, ready-to-go-with-fresh-pilots Flight Options airplanes because of something that Sheeringa and Tyler "thought" was going to happen.
Ten Million Dollars. Unrefundable.
Somebody stepped on his ying-yang.
I guess this year they considered it more cost effective to just threaten the pilots against something they weren't even thinking about than to waste another 10 mil. Shrewd!!
Remember last year? They thought there was going to be a sickout then, too. Paranoid. For the other folks benefit on this board, last year, the paranoid management at Flight Options got it into their heads that the pilots were going to stage a sick-out or something like that during the busy holiday season. SO, to counteract the alleged sickout, which was never even hinted at or thought about by the Flight Options pilots, Flight Options management pre-paid TEN MILLION DOLLARS worth of NON-REFUNDABLE charter over the holiday.
So FBOs across the country were full of static crews and the ramps full of quiet airplanes. Flight Options customers had to walk through FBO lobbies full of Flight Options pilots and go get in some chartered airplane instead of their green, ready-to-go-with-fresh-pilots Flight Options airplanes because of something that Sheeringa and Tyler "thought" was going to happen.
Ten Million Dollars. Unrefundable.
Somebody stepped on his ying-yang.
I guess this year they considered it more cost effective to just threaten the pilots against something they weren't even thinking about than to waste another 10 mil. Shrewd!!