In any case, judging from your scope clause this all hangs from and current arbitrated interpretation and ruling. Polar will not be growing. The company will pay the judgment if it falls in the Polar crews favor. To the point of even hiring back some FE's if so called for in the interim, which I doubt that will happen.
Then the company will allow attrition to shrink Polar. Reassigning A/C dry leases to Atlas when staffing falls below manning ability by not hiring replacements at Polar. Then Atlas will fly those A/C under the PACW - DHL agreement. Bye-bye upgrades at Polar.
Don't forget that Atlas spent over 14 million just to create a non-union pilot replacement group (AACS now AABO) in STN and bought an almost bankrupt scheduled carrier (Polar) for about 25 million to siphon Atlas A/C and routes away from Atlas crews to bust the Atlas Pilots Union. Yep, you forgot were a number of those routes Polar flies came from didn't you. Another inconvient truth forgotten.
Your arbitration award costs may well just be peanuts in comparison.
Quite the Pyrrhic victory for you guys.
I think you should drag this out as much as you can. Fewer Polar guys to be incorporated that way. Especially with the "No Bump and Flush" decided upon already by the arbiter. That is turning out to be one of the few things Atlas crews got out of all of this. Keep up the great work. We are counting on it over here.
Last edited by nitty-gritty; 5th November 2008 at 04:21.