Taxiing slowly, and getting time off for doing it, is a time honored tradition at contract time. Now, the pilots will feel empowered by the union's latest defiant pronouncement and at least one clown will find a way to get fired. This brave soul will wrap himself in the union mantle and the union will make some contractual concession to the company to get his job back.
It's all part of the drill..
Probably the most astute post so far. I've been recently stuck behind AA jets at LAX and JFK taxiing at snail's pace. Point taken, we get it. The controllers are barely able to restrain themselves. We're trying to make a schedule work so we can get paid, and you guys insist on involving us in your intra-company dispute, one that has nothing to do with us.
I sympathize, really, but do you have to jam the entire national airspace system just to prove your point? Is there not another way?