Personally I believe in the CRJ case the commission was bluffed by an aggressive CEO hell bent on firing the first shot in his war against seniority. Ultimately the cost of any redeployment and retraining would have been met by the Ansett administrators. So IMHO the sale was going through regardless. Once that little job was settled Micheal Jones then proceeded to tell the pilot group that seniority was GONE. I know because I was in the room when he said it.
Fortunately the Hazelton pilots stuck together and denied him the endgame WRT abolishing seniority, albeit it's not as robust as it once was!
The point is, one can never underestimate the lengths (and truth stretching) some managements will go to in the commission, or any other court for that matter (see Joyce and Buchanan's performance in the first Senate inquiry), in an effort to have their own way.
Last edited by KRUSTY 34; 17th May 2014 at 07:21.