Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

The success of the "C2K reaction" is debatable. While many like to parrot the pay scales, few enjoy discussing the fact it was not even six months until job protection provisions began failing and the contract was modified beyond any recognition by concessionary negotiations. Over the life of the agreement several thousand pilots lost jobs (both from the top and the bottom) and thanks to the increase in outsourced flying increasing from 10% to 50%, those jobs are not coming back.

IMHO C2K was ill conceived. It is unfair to the Titanic to make the comparison, but both were the greatest until they sailed into adverse conditions and sank.