Sematics
1. You misquoted Wanderer and inserted your own commentary as his quote.
For effect only
2. Amerijet does not "have" any freight that has not been consigned to it.
Freight is consigned to airlines by freight forwarders. "Struck freight" would include freight already consigned to Amerijet but not yet delivered at the time of the strike. Can you identify any such cargo?
Unless a forwarder has an EXCLUSIVE contract with a particular airline, that forwarder can choose any airline he wants for any load or portion thereof. The freight does not "belong to" any airline until it is consigned to that airline.
After the strike started, if a forwarder who usually consigns freight to Amerijet decides to use another airline for subsequent freight, that freight does NOT belong to Amerijet and is NOT "struck freight."
See the title of the post. You call it what ever you want. The rest is B.S. and you know it! The freight was going on AmeriJet if they were flying right.
I am not saying that the freight forwarder should suffer a financil impact because of the srtike. But if there was a contract with AmeriJet to move the freight, then the freight is AmeriJet's. And if the AmeriJet managment is still making a profit off of the movement even if it is not on an