Originally Posted by
alfaromeo
The fact is that our deal was the trigger that broke the entire industry out of the bankruptcy era. United followed us. American is directly hanging onto our coattails. US Airways is just along for the ride with American. Without our deal, we are stuck for years and years in stasis.
No, that distinction belongs to the pilots of Hawaiian Airlines. And they did so while explicitly ignoring the recommendations of ALPA national. Our latest scope cave-in with this contract has only hurt APA and UAL/CAL.
Originally Posted by
alfaromeo
In the most difficult times I always relied on this quote from Winston Churchill:
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Hmmm. You'd think you would know the author of a quote you rely on so much during difficult times. Winston Churchill didn't say this, Teddy Roosevelt did. But it's an interesting comarison you make nonetheless. Everyone always knew where Teddy stood. He said what he wanted to do, then he did it. If you criticized him because you didn't like it, at least you knew he did what he promised. You and the other MEC bureaucrats did just the opposite. You talked the good game of C2K restoration and "not one more seat, and not one more pound". But now we know you folks were really just feverishly manipulating data to produce contract comparisons, etc. that made the case for minimal gains...and prior to Section 6 even beginning. Exactly the opposite of what you said.
Teddy Roosevelt would have criticized you as well. And he wouldn't have let such malfeasance go uncriticized just because you chose to be in the arena.
Carl