Originally Posted by
Waves
Former Management ordered too many 50 seaters. Should we now punish them for it by making them eat them and thereby greatly reducing our financial bottom line?
We certainly should not be paying for those decisions with concessions in this ta....
You know, this isn’t your last contract?
Is that more of: "we'll get them next time?" If it is, why is it we keep hearing that but yet it never seems to materialize?
It is the "next time" imho. We have not been in bankruptcy for over 5 years now and are making profits.
I'm no expert on this, but every other major seems to follow this doctrine as well, so I have no reason to think we can change it. Again, it is what it is.
It is the "followed doctrine" because alpa and their associated membership groups
allowed it to happen over the years. Of course people don't think they can change it, they allowed it in the first place.
I've asked before and never got a response: to any body that voted yes to outsourcing 50 seat rj's back in the day, did you also look at DC-9-10 flying as somehow "beneath" you? They only had 80-some seats. What was the "excuse" for allowing it to happen?