Flight attendants are trained to evacuate within 90 seconds -- all passengers off. It's been tested, it's been drilled. Obviously something went right with this crew. |
no reason to believe these allegations are true. |
Sixty percent temporarily is better than the judge coming along and imposing 100% of the $195 million permanently, |
Sixty percent temporarily is better than the judge coming along and imposing 100% of the $195 million permanently. |
The clock started ticking today, |
The recalls were part of their contingency plan, |
The recalls were part of their contingency plan. Now, they're kicking these people back to the curb. |
We don't think the judge will impose new conditions on us. I think the judge sees things getting closer. It's possible bargaining could go on for another week. |
We recognize it's painful and devastating to our members, and couldn't come at a more worse time, however we do not want our future in the hands of the bankruptcy court. |
We think it's highly inappropriate that they would announce a raid at this time that we are going through contract negotiations, |
We were left with no choice. This doesn't give our membership much time to prepare. It's all happening very fast. What else can we say but this is a horrible time and membership should prepare their finances. |
We will continue to bargain. But we now have our work cut out for us. But, at least we now know what we're dealing with. |
We're always excited at the prospect of somebody new coming in -- a 'white knight' or somebody who might take a different approach with regard to labor -- anybody that's possibly going to take a less adversarial approach. We're always optimistic. But again, we're not going to get overly excited because we'll just wait and see how it all plays out. |