Originally Posted by L-38
The remaining 8/9 have now joined Polar's other furloughed FE's, and are now filling for unemployment. How they will factor in with the no bump / no flush clause of AAWH's combined FE list is yet to be determined (all were hired in July/ August/ September 1994).
The irony here, is that although now a furloughed Polar FE, I had actually operated Atlas's first after inaugural flight, when working for Tower Air back in February of 1993.
And the Polar MEC was presented with the option to prevent those 8/9 from going to the street by allowing them to slide over to fill seats which needed to be filled at the time. The Atlas MEC was ready to agree to a temporary limited agreement in which those PFE's could have remained employed and on the property.
Regardless of the
temporary conditions in that agreement until such time that a merged contract exists, the Polar MEC chose to put those PFE's on the street, why?
DBW