Come on Black Swan, for all anyone knows, it could have been you who was blocking the safety hotline, it in fact anyone did at all. In usapa's complaint, not a single named defendant was alleged to have blocked the safety hotline. Why is that?
??? USAPA generates something on the order of $12 mil a year. That's plenty of money for phase II of Addington damges and the Cactus 18. The only thing, USAPA will have to go on a severe diet, but perhaps USAPA-lite would be a good thing for everyone.
I suggest that you educate yourself about this case. The more you talk the more you look foolish.
Less than 3000 voted for USAPA, so I'll take your number as another made up "fact". But like I said, only the very dense or the very greedy...
$5 mil would be a bit much for each of the Cactus 18, but I'd think 200-300K apiece would be a reasonable award for the harm suffered. But the issue here would be whether the institution is liable versus the individual USAPA officers who were behind the suit, as individuals. Libel and defamation are intentional torts which leads me to believe we're talking individual liability and not entity liability, but I really don't know. The 18's lawyer will surely have it figured out though. As for the Addington damages, take half of the collected dues money and you're still looking at $6 mil or so. That paid over a few years would go a long way to help make the injured West pilots whole, but nothing will ever make them totally whole at this point. The damages award would follow to any voluntary change of bargaining agents, so the only potential way to possibly avoid paying damages would be to go non-union. Boy, wouldn't that be a hoot!
And of course you have proof of these allegations and that these acts were committed by west pilots rather than east pilots as
1549 and the safety hotline!
Umm...perhaps the flight/all of this should all have been left in the hands of AWA "professionals" instead? 
