A320PLT said:
Well to that I only offer this. Your east buddies are the ones who chose this path! I see Tim has resorted to keep his mouth shut on this issue and rightly so. The thought of begging to go to arbitration getting that then not honoring their end of the deal! ALL this garbage about "we have all this seniority" no they didn't what they had was longevity but no seniority which is why a guy with 18yr in at old usair was at the very bottom of the list and why folks with 17yrs were furloughed!!!
Unprofessional? Yup that's right we are just giving back what we received from them, total disrespect!!!
Look, there's differences of opinion and there's putting peoples lives at risk! Any pilot who calls themselves professional who is willing to stand by and watch hundreds of peoples lives put at risk and not try to stop it if they could just because they are involved in a dispute with other pilots does not deserve to wear the wings on their uniform. If a USAirways east pilot did that, then I would say the exact same thing. If the incident happened as you describe, then it is pathetic of the crew and it is pathetic that you defend it. Disagree about the facts of our discussion - you made some valid points but I can't say in strong enough terms just how wrong your attitude is about the passengers you and others fly. How would those guys have felt if they sat there and watched snickering while the other aircraft taxied onto the runway and was creamed by another aircraft taking off? How would you have felt? Glad? Elated? Felt like those scum got theirs? How about those innocent people in the back? If you really think that behavior like this is justified - by anything - then you really should do the rest of our profession a favor and find another job.