Originally Posted by BlaineFaban

No BS. The West pilots are the ONLY group going to come out unscathed. Crap airline with crap pay and benefits dragging down the industry since inception. They will now have access to a global network with massive increases to their compensation, and even at the bottom of the list will be light years ahead of where they should be. The list will treat them much more fairly than the bottom as well. They are not victims, they are victors, no matter how you slice it.

Originally Posted by BlaineFaban

No BS. The West pilots are the ONLY group going to come out unscathed. Crap airline with crap pay and benefits dragging down the industry since inception. They will now have access to a global network with massive increases to their compensation, and even at the bottom of the list will be light years ahead of where they should be. The list will treat them much more fairly than the bottom as well. They are not victims, they are victors, no matter how you slice it.

Originally Posted by BlaineFaban

I got news for you, AWA wasn't the center of the aviation universe. It was only a matter of time until they succumbed to SWA. Failure after failure after failure of an airline. Then the govt stepped in to save them. Everyone lost after 9/11. I for one am impressed with the East ability to work the system. Its not the way I would have done it, but the change in ALPA merger procedure, and the way mergers have gone since show that there was the possibility of another US/AWA with the way the rules were written. Tough luck for you, but you ain't the first and you certainly won't be the last.

As long as the merger system has subjectivity in it, there will be winners and losers. My opinion is that AWA hit the lottery, no matter the outcome of the SLI, and actually hit the lottery twice by being anywhere but the bottom of the new list.

You disagree, and the world will keep spinning. I would have loved to see an AWA/Allegiant merger and seen the arguments of the West committee--and the Allegiant committee for that matter.

Originally Posted by Sliceback

Lucky - in the mid 80's every surviving legacy airline had young guys hired.

Originally Posted by flyinawa

Laughable flame bait post but hey, whatever.

Originally Posted by BlaineFaban

Not really. You guys know it too, that's why you walk around with chips on your shoulders. Denial is a powerful thing.

Originally Posted by LuckyNow

This is true, but the pilots at the other places weren't hired under B-scale. That made AA a decidedly less attractive place to be at the time... and many of those pilots are now our long haul WB captains with upwards of a decade to go until retirement. I was pointing out that what you sign on for and what you end up with can be two vastly different things.

Originally Posted by PurpleTurtle

It's seems nothing will alleviate ten years of bitterness. Even if you put all the bitter pilots in 777s, I'm afraid they would spend all their days recounting every single day of the decade of bitterness.

Originally Posted by esadof

What you scum bags have done will never ever be forgotten.