Originally Posted by
groundstop
I am sure Delta guys in 1999 had doubts about the company. Then C2K came along and we were among the highest paid pilots in the industry. Didn't Southwest use these rates in their negotiating?
Depends how you see Contract 2000. How many times was it modified? The scope modifications and furloughs began relatively early.
It is difficult for me to define C2K as "successful" given its failure to protect jobs from being transferred and its monetary gains were subsequently surrendered.
IMHO Leo Mullin and his crew set out to destroy Contract 2000 before the ink was even dry.
The real skill is not getting something as much as it is keeping it.