Come on Preston..focus!Now pilots addresses are FEDERAL CONTROLLED DATA???
Lets see,,,your question was will the company let the guilty people slide....hhmmm...who was responsible for making the very costly mistake of stealling West block hours and transfering them east to avoid east furloughs at the West's expense? Did the company let that person slide??
When I talk ask about seals in SFO, you answer with the average number of cows in Hungry Horse, Montanna....try to stay on the subject....you know, thousands of pilots at a major airline having all their HR data relinquished to an unauthorized group of employees? You and Callaway can downplay this all you want, and you can talk about block hours to another red lanyard guy.
Lets see, why would the company spend LARGE $$ if this was a non-event? hmmm? why indeed. Here's the kicker, if a few loose cannons out west got a hair up their cookie to get a bigger badge out there cooked this up, and AOL flatly refused to receive it and reported it...AOL could slide. Naturally, the cub scouts would get whacked, but hey....it was their crazy idea. But no...AOL orchestrated a mass-mailer using this ill-gotten information. Now they're caught. Now that they're caught, they are deflecting attention towards the company with this idiotic letter....so as to step out of the spotlight.
Tell you what, why does the FAA control airmen credentials like they do? Think a stolen uniform from a car break-in is serious? What if the ID badge is stolen too? How could a would-be thief determine where to look for a house an airline pilot lives? Far fetched? Ask the TSA. Ask the FAA.
How about the families of those pilots? Names, phone numbers...hmmmm lotta stuff in that CATCREW screen.