I just heard the FAA is finally getting off their ass and is going to change flight duty limits to 12 hrs for domestic. I also heard this might happen within the next 6 months.. Comments??
That could wipe out all the furloughs.
Well we know that some of the ex-PSA folks would likely bid PHX.
All 20 of them who still live in CA. Most are already on the wide-bodies. A pay cut for a shorter commute? I doubt many takers. Lacking a wide-body bid in PHX, you really think they’d mass migrate to PHX on commute or move?
Did you review your notes on whether Wake questioned attorney fees? 12 hour duty limits that makes our operation safer and should bring back most furloughed pilots. Certain West supporters hijacked this into another seniority NIC/DOH debate, with all the required knife stabs. I don’t get it.
Other things I don’t get is this constant labeling of one group against another. We’re all advocates for our own side. Otherwise what’s the point of posting anything? I’ve been accused of being a full time east shill. Read of my posts over the past 4+ years, I never said DOH was going to be the final decision and the NIC was going to defeat. I said the old MEC merger committee was off their rocker going for DOH. I did say the courts, the Ninth will decide. Review my posts. Their all there to read. I don’t like reading false info. Sorry if calling bull what they are offends the authors. If I get caught putting out something that is wrong or out of context, I’ll listen, maybe defend my position, but I don’t lay on a personal attack. No point.
More rant, I’ve said you got to pay dues/fee or get fired. How many posts ridiculed that? As Susie found out, that’s the way it is, despite all the Bull to the opposite. I thought the vandalism that led to the RICO was illegal, but I said on many posts that the RICO should be dropped as overkill. This should be over. Not exactly something a USAPA shill would say. I attacked JS denials on both sides and never took a stand who was more at fault.
I supported COBRA on this chat board for the west pilots who refused to join. I could see the position they were in. Join and get slammed in the crew room or just ride it out. I sent my BPR a letter on that. I haven’t followed if that got resolved or not. The RICO was thrown out of Fed court for the same reason the DFR was thrown out of AZ state court: jurisdiction. West types drool over the first but ignore the 2nd. Jurisdiction has nothing to do with merits. I never said we’d win the DFR court suit. The way the judge set up what he’d allow in, as far back as February it was obvious there was no way we could. I posted that before the trial started. Point is, the Ninth will decide if he committed reversible error or wasn’t ripe, not this board.
Clear says the Ninth took it on short notice because of the concept of binding arbitration was at stake. Maybe so, but on the flip side, the Ninth maybe expedited it because the concept of a union being allowed to bargain without pre-set conditions is also at stake. We’ll know next winter. Or the Ninth could uphold the plaintiff, then it should be over. Or reverse on ripeness with no other reason. However this turns out, I hope both sides will just move on and let the Ninth decision end this and not retry on adnauseum on this board. Totally lost in this E/W battle is what a labor thread should really be about: labor Vs management. Get back to that and maybe we’ll all have some good discussion.
Sure. Then you can head into retirement in a few years a quarter of a million dollars poorer. And for no reason! Suit yourself! 
