It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I see the same “idiots” and “nonsense-spewers” are still here on FI. Glad to see my fellow AWA pilots still carrying the mail and providing rational input to the discussion and the continuing support of our fellow professional airline pilots.
For what it is worth, your view crystallizes pretty clearly when you have been furloughed for 5 months. All the while knowing that New Hires and East Furloughees are still working. USAPA has never gone on record over New Hires continuing to work while West pilots were let go. AWA pilots sit on the street in this economy enduring financial and emotional hardship; that should not have happened. What your realize is that this dispute is about money, power, and the East taking advantage of their greater numbers to elevate the East Pilots into a position that the merger & Mr. Nicolau did not place them. It is really that simple. East wants to benefit at the expense of their fellow pilots, they want a “do-over” on the merger agreement, 3 years down the road. Every day that goes by, East takes advantage of West. USAPA and every East pilot is responsible, there is just no way around that. They want to get something for nothing … it is so corrupt, it is just like the Madoff scandal, mortgage loan crisis, bonuses at AIG. Just cheat your way to the top and nobody will know, have time to investigate, or ever call you on it. Except this time, the AWA pilots have drawn a line in the sand and that day of reconciliation is indeed coming. Really with most Fraud, it does catch up with you. We will see if the Judge says USAPA violated its duty of Fair Representation and then what the penalties might be
It is one company, the new US Airways. Every day AWA pilots are denied our 757 growth slots, our E190 slots, and of course the integrated seniority list. All we want is what we agreed too. Every day the East Pilots benefit, while the West Pilots are prevented from capturing what we’ve been awarded or negotiated. We are going to get a Federal Judge to order it to be done the way it was supposed to be done. And I don’t mind flying with anyone out East. I look forward to flying with professional crews, anywhere, at any time.