SWA-AAI Going Rogue

[Kharma Police]

Most if not all of us like the Airline. We simply don't like the management team. Big difference.

Agreed. We have a great family here at AirTran. Unfortunately, we have an abusive father.

 

[General Lee]

"There is a list of around 75 guys on the Swapa forum that left Airtran to come over to SWA at the bottom."



I here that some in your MEC/MC are discussing ways to give the former tranny's their AAI seniority back as part of an SLI deal. Apparently someone over there thinks an arbitrator would take it into account. I guess that would be one way to deal with those pilots' definition of career expectations.

There was an argument like this during the DL/NWA arbitration. The NWA guy gave a story about two pilots who were both at Western Airlines when it was merged with DL, and both were furloughed. One guy stayed furloughed and eventually came back to DL, and the other guy went to NWA. The NWA guy tried to convince (in testimony) that they should be treated the same, with the Western seniority, instead of the current day DL or NWA seniority. The arbitrators didn't agree, and did not treat them the same, because both pilots had a choice to do whatever they wanted in life, and one stuck it out, while the other did not. The AT pilots that left for SWA were not FORCED to do anything, it was their choice. Nobody has do work for anyone. Expect the same type of deal, unless the union folks try to get involved, but that still doesn't mean the arbitrators will agree to it. They will determine the list.


Bye Bye---General Lee