Get real Whale
Yes Polar went on strike in 1999, for 4.5 hours, and refused to fly airplanes as ordered under threat, to achieve a reasonable first contract. The Atlas MEC on the other hand flinched and accepted a lousy contract. The Atlas MEC then tried to place the blame on a group of pilots who were understaffed to fly there own 15 airplanes and somehow going to fly 30+ additional aircraft inorder to undermine the Atlas strike. It was never going to happen, the Polar crew force was counting on the Atlas MEC to achieve an industry leading contract to be piggy backed on by Polars own upcoming bargaining. You really need to give up blaming Polar for the Atlas MECs weak actions.
The Polar pilot group is a solid, staunch, unified group. Not one Polar pilot has ever crossed a picket line and never will. If the Atlas MEC ever gets the nuts to pull the trigger the Polar pilot group will be standing shoulder to shoulder with them to ensure success.
To answer your question on Polars section 6 preparations. They are well under way. The group has been surveyed and the openers are being prepared. The Atlas negotiators, under the direction of the Atlas MEC and JC have refused to actively participate with the Polar negotiators. The smart thing to do would be to prepare identical openers and stand strong together. The Atlas MEC would rather merge to make it easier, not realizing that the company will just aquire another airline and start the same game all over again. The Atlas MEC needs to step down and allow a strong, uncomprimised MEC to take the lead. Great gains are to be had when these two bozos (DB and JC) step aside.
Two more things Whale, how is it you seem to know who or what entity is making money. You don't have a clue. And as for Atlas scheduled service, give me a break, a huge amount of scheduled service Polar was doing is now being flown by Atlas. Markets that Polar have been in since its inception in the early 90s are now being flown on Giant call signs. Atlas does not even have a scheduled frieght sales team. The frieght is being aquired by Polar and shipped on Atlas in numerous markets, they haven't even changed the flight numbers. This is copied and pasted from the companies own Q@A board:
Title: SUB Flights? </B>
Item Number: 3735</B>
Updated: 1/24/2008 11:55:00 AM</B>
Question: Just looked on AIMS at the flight schedule for a particular day, and noticed that there are many flights (Polar)that don't have a tail number assigned to them, but the word SUB next to those flights, who's operating these flights???? </B>
Response: The "SUB" fleet is the modification to AIMS that allows Crew Scheduling and Travel to see and list Atlas crew on Polar flights and visa versa.
I hope you enjoy your profit sharing checks made off the back of Polars business. Spend them proudly with your battle star stuck in your chest. Funny, I walked the line in LAX for three weeks and never saw one Atlas pilot walking beside me. Saw an awful lot of Atlas aircraft flying by me though. The Atlas MEC changed its position by the minute throughout the Polar 05 strike. I don't blame the Atlas pilots for the Polar strike failure, I blame the Atlas MECs lack of backbone and solidarity. I and every other Polar pilot have thrown there battle stars in the recycle bin where they now belong. I thank the few Atlas pilots that did stand with Polar, you have my deepest respect and appreciation, its the rest I pity.
Praters latest actions, in conjunction with the Atlas MEC and executive board, are sickening. It's not about what's right, wrong or contractual. It's all about the amighty dollar. It cost $673,000 so far to enforce the rights of the Polar contract, better to just ignore the contract and save the money, isn't that what you (whale), the Atlas MEC, and ALPA national are saying?
Last edited by LANCERDVR; 26th January 2008 at 21:38.