Pan Am in KBTL

[McNugget]

No, clearly you can't see the difference so I will show you.

The FlyI pilots were not furloughed because the company was circumventing the union contract. I would know, as I was one of them.

Now, if NWA furloughed all of its pilots and gave all of the mainline aircraft to Pinnacle, because management could not reach a contract agreement with the NWA pilots, it would be like what happened at PanAm.

Now, I don't know if Pinnacle is a wholly owned, probably not. But BMA was owned by PanAm. They used one pilot group to replace another to bust the union. To be more accurate, they took the planes from one pilot group and put them at the other. That's why there is no more PanAm...at least the latest reincarnation of the dead horse. That is why PanAm airplanes fly around using "Clipper Connection" as a call sign, as they are now flying on the BMA certificate.

 

[McNugget]

not exactly readily....

WTFO, why did you even bring this thread back to make a stupid comment like that?

 

[Flyerjosh]

McNugget-

Let's clarify some things here. I said not exactly. That's the truth.

PanAm folded due to financial constraints in 1991. At that time ALL Pan Am employees were without a job and terminated.

In 1996, the Pan Am name was resurrected briefly, but once again ended up folding after a merger with Carnival Airlines. During the subsequent bankruptcy, the airline was sold to Guilford Transportation in 1998.

Guilford Transportation launched Pan American Airways in 1999. It later operated flights in conjunction with Boston-Maine Airways, which it subsequently purchased and transferred ops to.

I don't disagree that the pilots at BMA are scabs. (And show me where I said otherwise). I do disagree though that they replaced Pan Am pilots in regards to what most people think of as "Pan Am".

 

[EMB Skillz]

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