Originally Posted by
slowplay
You realize that in 2015 Delta pilots will be leading the industry (again) in pay rates? And can you explain why the three airlines that never went bankrupt and have been profitable throughout this period (FDX, UPS, SWA) never caught up to those 2004 rates of pay?
Oh, can you show me how those "fighting" unions have produced better results? Maybe an NWA guy can remind us how much of a pay rate increase they got after a 14 day lockout in 1998.
I'm all for a fight if it gets us better results. I'll follow just about any path that produces better results. But advocating for a path that hasn't produced any results...
That remains to be seen, 3 years is a long time, and all the majors, SWA, FedEx will have had ample time to exceed those rates. For now, we are making record profits following a successful merger which put us squarely in the lead among our contemporaries.
Personally I think the companies reaction will be vindictive, and we will be made out to be the Snidely Whiplashes of the company, but that's what it took to achieve c2k. I find the TA to be too concessionary to justify not taking that risk.