Originally Posted by
full of luv
Read "hard landings". Educate yourself on industry history prior to Obama/bush. Then you will understand some of the angst that senior pilots hold against SWA. Most didn't appreciate their visionary (in the 80s) compensation of no defined benefit retirement and no retirement health care along with lower wages but eventually the industry came around to their vision of pilot compensation.
Oh btw congress just took the first bite of your entitlement aka retirement pay from the military. Once they take their bite they will be back for more. Welcome to the new order should have put a little more into that tsp. luv.
Would that angst have anything to do with strangling the golden goose for every golden egg? Overplaying their hand and then being confronted with what happened on 9-11 after their companies where in a weakened position? Retires lost their DB retirements because of what unions extracted from their companies. You have to allow for sustainability when you negotiate a contract. Unions and management did not allow for anything negative and paid the price. What happened to the legacy airlines was their own fault. SWA did their own thing and the others failed to adjust.
We are now facing some difficulties of our own and hopefully we will adjust. I for one won't be blaming another airline if we don't correct things.
The Oscar