Never a dull day in the airline bidness, that’s what I say.

And today proved that point when, instead of hearing about a potential merger, or parked planes, or higher fuel costs, instead we have a hefty 52 page lawsuit that USAPA, the newly formed independent union that represents the pilots at US Airways has filed against their brethren, the former America West pilots.

You may recall that it was because the bulk of the US Airways East pilots voted to break off from ALPA earlier this year that ALPA no longer represents the pilot group at US Airways.

The whole move to displace ALPA was rooted in one cause — the ALPA arbitration award concerning the merged seniority list for the two airlines.

Short and sweet — America West guys were generally okay with it, while the US Airways East guys were not. Mind you, ALPA  rules at the time were that the arbitration award was to be followed. But the guys at US Airways didn’t like the award — so they decided to leave ALPA instead.

And there you go.

Today, USAPA filed a suit against a group of America West pilots accusing the group of “racketeering activity, and acts in violation of federal and North Carolina state law, in which the defendants have engaged in pursuit of their declared goal of destroying the plaintiff union.”

The lawsuit contends that since April 18, 2008, the defendants and their co-conspirators have subjected USAPA, its officers, and individual US Airways pilots to a concerted campaign of sabotage, which has included:

1) a deluge of frivolous calls to USAPA’s toll-free telephone line in order to jam the service and impose costs on the Union;

2) false communications to USAPA’s safety line – the equivalent of maliciously triggering a fire alarm;

3) communications to US Airways pilots asserting that their “safety” will be jeopardized if they pay dues to USAPA;

4) the false attribution of defamatory statements to USAPA officers by use of a slightly altered e-mail address; 5) maliciously arranging for USAPA officers to receive subscriptions to electronic services, including sexually-related services, in an apparent effort to defame these officers and sabotage their electronic communications;

6) a concerted effort to deprive pilots at US Airways the ability to commute to work by denying USAPA members the use of the cockpit jump seat; and

7) a conspiracy to violate the union security provisions of the applicable collective bargaining agreements and to induce US Airways to violate these same provisions.

Yee haw.

For those of you with enquiring minds, you can download the entire .pdf file of the lawsuit here. Let me assure you, it makes for some very interesting reading.

Interesting, but pretty sad at the same time.

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