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billSquared
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Well it seems to me that it kind of began with a couple of things happening right about the same time that really put a burr under everyones saddle.
First, we had gone a couple of months with the company, the mediator, and our cnc not even getting together. Then they schedule 5 days in a row for negotiations to hammer things out.
I believe it was about day 2 or 3 in negotiations that the mediator sent everyone home and another dissapointing email was dispatched to the pilots from the cnc. And on that same day, big D dropped the hammer on us announcing that they were dropping our travel priority to just above a buddy pass and going to make us pay to ride on their aircraft AND that delta nonrevs would have a higher priority on ASA planes than ASA people would. I think that was kind of the final straw for this pilot group.
So the perfect storm kind of formed all at once!
Oh, and during the time of our negotiations, we had:
2 base closing,
our 900's go to skyw,
4 of our 700's go to skyw,
a round of downgrades
Good luck to yall!
Bingo. Not to mention the following month's lines were garbage and the hotel-switching plan to fleabags had hit its peak. These things came together in a perfect storm to finally anger the pilot group as a hole. There was no real organization, just a few events which led to what is now known as HAVCO.