History Of B Scale

[Bob Owens]

name='aafsc' date='Oct 15 2005, 12:43 AM' post='312178']
Bob, I don't know that much about New York Air. But wasn't it merged into CO along with People Express after it sold it's "shuttle assets" to Pan AM?

From what I remember it was merged into Continental.

Did the New York Air AMTs get to keep their pay and benefits, or did they drop down to CO's pay and work rules?

Dont know.

Were NYA AMTs union?

No

Lorenzo was maybe a little "kinder" to the EAL AMTs than he was to the CO AMTs in the early 1980s (My 50%-60% figure was mainly about CO in the early 1980s in terms of total compensation of topped out CO AMTs when compared with topped out AMTs at the others). At EAL, he did hit ramp harder but the AMTs still took a big drop in compensation. Lorenzo's destruction of the ramp at EAL did not translate into industry leading compensation for EAL AMTs.

Whoever said it would? I've told my fellow mechanics for years that if the company was able to screw over the baggage handlers it would not help us get better compensation. I've heard members of management tell mechanics that the company would pay mechanics more but not baggage handlers, I didnt believe them and figured they were just trying to keep the ranks divided. However it cant be denied that during the 2000-01 contract cycle that mechanics got a lot more than other workers, industrywide, not just at AA and NWA and thats directly attributable to what AMFA had accomplished at NWA. Thats why AMFA is not only the target for management but also for the company freindly unions of this industry.