cactusboy53
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Just playing your games, Marty. Would you care for some facts? Here you go…..
You don’t know spit about what my experience is, who all I have worked for, or who I interviewed with besides America West Airlines.
I did put in an application at US Airways around the time that I applied at America West, but was unaware about the untenable position they were to be in. In fact, I was offered an interview to fly a Dash 8 (Piedmont, as I recall) for my $75 application fee. Pretty chickenstuff if you ask me. I applied to a MAJOR airline, and get offered an interview with the wholly owned commuter (been there, did that, had a blast in the BAe146!)??
You people have cost us all with your DOH land grab. I don’t know how things are going to end up, BUT logic, ethics, morals & common sense tell me that your group will be devastated. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.
Here’s my mindset if you haven’t figured it out: You and those like you that support all of the things that USAPA has done to injure the West pilots are some of the most despicable, vile, contemptible human beings to ever walk the face of the earth. You have managed to cheat all of us out of MILLIONS of dollars in wages, contract benefits and time off that we will NEVER recover. USAPA will go down in the history of organized labor as the most dismal failure on record. All for the sake of cheating a smaller group out of an agreed upon process. You may high-five yourselves each time you get another delay victory, but the end draws nigh.
- FACT: US Airways was in its THIRD bankruptcy in Chapter 11 (facing Chapter 7) in May 2005.
- FACT: According to Bob Mann US Airways was toast.
- FACT: Pilot Colello and everyone South of him had NO chance of returning to US Airways (in the direction that they were going. That would also include my buddies DiOrio, Gillies, Crimi, Ingram, etc.
- FACT: According to investment bankers associated with US Airways bankruptcy, they would NOT have emerged from bankruptcy EVER. Further, without the capital raised by America West Holdings US Airways would most assuredly gone OUT OF BUSINESS.
- FACT: America West Airlines was the FIRST MAJOR airline to fly after 9/11.
- FACT: America West Airlines was the FIRST MAJOR airline to hire off the street after 9/11
- FACT: America West Airlines was the FIRST MAJOR airline to get a post 9/11 contract with contract & wage IMPROVEMENTS (vs. a post bankruptcy dirtbag LOA).
- FACT: As a party to the merger (ALPA being my collective bargaining agent), I agreed to the tenets and conclusion of that process. Was it fair that the #1 AWA pilot was placed @ 518? NO. He should have been #1 (IMO). But we agreed to the process, and the process was followed.
You don’t know spit about what my experience is, who all I have worked for, or who I interviewed with besides America West Airlines.
I did put in an application at US Airways around the time that I applied at America West, but was unaware about the untenable position they were to be in. In fact, I was offered an interview to fly a Dash 8 (Piedmont, as I recall) for my $75 application fee. Pretty chickenstuff if you ask me. I applied to a MAJOR airline, and get offered an interview with the wholly owned commuter (been there, did that, had a blast in the BAe146!)??
You people have cost us all with your DOH land grab. I don’t know how things are going to end up, BUT logic, ethics, morals & common sense tell me that your group will be devastated. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.
Here’s my mindset if you haven’t figured it out: You and those like you that support all of the things that USAPA has done to injure the West pilots are some of the most despicable, vile, contemptible human beings to ever walk the face of the earth. You have managed to cheat all of us out of MILLIONS of dollars in wages, contract benefits and time off that we will NEVER recover. USAPA will go down in the history of organized labor as the most dismal failure on record. All for the sake of cheating a smaller group out of an agreed upon process. You may high-five yourselves each time you get another delay victory, but the end draws nigh.
