Following the Money
But if you're going to follow the money, D. Dingo, and if you work out what was in the airline's best financial interests, you then have to ask what financial leverage the airline might have had over the exec pilots. My understanding is that there was very little financial advantage to being an exec pilot. So maybe it was just stand-over tactics by Morrie Davis, or one of his henchmen? The problem there is that even Mahon would be unlikely to agree, given that in his book he gives lengthy descriptions of his impressions of the top two exec pilots. If Mahon's descriptions are accurate, the Chief Pilot would have had no difficultly in telling Morrie to f*ck off, and the No.2 likewise (except that he would have done so in a charming fashion).