You would think that our new President Gary Hummel, knowing that a large percentage of pilots are unsure of his motives, would do all he could to be as transparent as he campaigned he would be. Especially until we are confident with him and his motives. Instead, Gary Hummel, Steve Bradford and Rob Streble all secretly went to PHX today, have not answered any of the queries of the BPR and are staying at the Marriott, not a crew hotel.
The BPR was not informed of this trip by the officers, they have no idea who they are meeting with, and the officers have refused to answer text messages or cell phone calls from the BPR.
What I find interesting is that a few months ago, Joe Stein told my crew that Mike Cleary secretly met with management and quote: "sold us out." Of course it was just another attempt by someone with an agenda to create distrust of our former officers before the election. In that case, Mike never made that trip to sell us out. It's been my experience that people with a devious agenda often preempt something by making accusations that they themselves are guilty of. Kind of like 'the best defense is a good offense.'
I hate to think what is happening without our knowledge, but I hope that it was all a misunderstanding and that they just forgot to tell the BPR about a golf outing they decided to take.
I think we deserve answers.
