Originally Posted by
legend
Since you want to put blame on those who accept jobs with lower wages then you must include when some of you at DAL, UAL etc. drove the wages so high the only thing it could do was come crashing down. Thats exactly what it did after 911 and it gave those airlines an excuse to file CH.11 and drasticly lower their cost.
So what you are saying is that if the UAL and DAL pilots had not achieved their last contract prior to 9/11, then neither of them would have filed chap 11?
If that's what you are stating, then FWIW I cannot agree with you.
I firmly believe both UAL and DAL would have gone Chapter 11 without the higher cost contracts. Neither USAir or NWA had those pay rates and they filed.
The tragedy of 9/11 gave airline managements the tool they could only dream about, the ability to wipe out labor's contracts legally and without a strike.
JMHO.