Originally Posted by
lambourne
Then the pilots union suing for lost wages due to the grounding is ridiculous. How do they know they would not have faced some other type of calamity industry wide or personal that would have precluded their advancement and growth opportunities. When if anything is ever guaranteed in this industry in career advancement? It appears that Southwest and its pilots suffer from imagination.
Liability questions in civil litigation are considered on the basis of what
actually happens, no on what
might have happened. If you sue a driver who injured you in a collision in a crosswalk/zebra crossing, the driver can't argue that your lawsuit is ridiculous because you
could have been injured by debris from a deorbiting satellite -- or anything else.
There's nothing at all "ridiculous" about the basis of the SWA pilots' suit, although we can't know, now, whether the specific details of the case will permit it to eventually go to trial.