Originally Posted by
rvr350
Just flew with a mid-seniority guy and we started about our upcoming contract. He stated that DALPA negotiated C2K and even though the company couldn't afford it, Leo signed it anyway, and basically bankrupt the company overnight. I wasn't at DL in 2000, so if anyone would chime in, i'd appreciate. But it seems to me there's more than a few of those that think that way. If that's the case, we're in big trouble.
It amazes me the lengths people go to distort history. What happened after C2K at both United and Delta? A little thing called the WORST TERRORIST ATTACK IN HISTORY! An event that conservatively removed 2 trillion from the world economy. But to these history revisionists, it wasn't 9-11 that BK'd UAL and DAL...it was those crazy pilot pay rates in their C2K contracts.
Incredible. We've got to be better defenders of actual history, as opposed to parroting management talking points of why most airlines went bankrupt.
Carl