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From this perspective, if we go back 25 or 30 years and look at "all" the airlines that failed, we see a pattern that is not deniable. Each airline had a different management team and each one failed.
Can all of these management teams be incompetant?
How many of these failed airlines had their pilots representated by ALPA?
When United failed, the CEO in charge was hand picked and installed, several years earlier, by ALPA and the IAM.
The summer of 2000 was not the final nail in the coffin, but it drove the premium customer to other airlines and the recipients made sure the perks were such that they did not come back to United.
Such is the world of competition.
If you're serious about a different perspective I am on the ALPA scab list of 85. As we could see the handwriting on the wall.