Originally Posted by
slowplay
This is a question that has multiple answers. And those answers all depend on timing.
What happened to USAirways stock price when USAPA was unhappy? (It outperformed ours).
What happened to AMR's stock price during the 6 years pre-bankruptcy when the APA pilots were unhappy? The AMR shareowners were the only group besides Hawaiian to not lose everything in an airline bankruptcy (unlike NWA and DAL equity holders).
What happened to UCAL stock price during the 4/3 years that they were negotiating? Even though their airline generates a revenue premium compared to us, their contract still lags ours.
The pilots of those airlines marched around in circles, took out newspaper ads, or got court injunctions against them. Where are their pilot contracts?
SWA didn't picket. FedEx didn't picket. No newspaper ads. No injunctions. Where are their pilot contracts?
Fascinating that slowplay would accuse Clamp of "revising history" when slowplay displays his ever changing history. Years prior to C2012, slowplay and the other MEC administrators that regularly post here were clear that aiding our company to show profits was the best method to ensure we have the leverage we need to make gains. When profits came, slowplay said we needed to show sustained profits to ensure we had the leverage to make gains. When sustained profits came, slowplay said we can only make gains comparable to our competitors (excluding FDX, UPS and our JV competitors). When record and sustained profits came, slowplay and team simply redefined the term "gains" and high fived one another.
Carl