Originally Posted by
tsquare
Interesting analogy. Look at the morons in New Orleans that didn't listen though. I remember Bob Sheets saying that if there was such a thing as a Cat 6 hurricane, Katrina would have been it, yet many people that had the opportunity to leave, didn't. Maybe Darwin was right after all. But by al means, shoot the weatherman. (Not Jay)
And you can never have too much plywood in Florida.
Well, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while. But the Hurricane Katrina's that have hit our industry were not forecast, i.e. 9-11, Gulf War 1, the market crash of 2008, etc.
However, what WAS easily predicted, ever since American Airlines brought their B scale on line, was that it would ripple through the industry. It's ALWAYS been a Monkey See, Monkey Do industry. As other carriers went bankrupt all around us, we were busy giving away 32% of our pay, signing LOA 46, to STAY OUT OF BANKRUPTCY!! When going into bankruptcy was "The Plan" all along!
You didn't need to be a genius with a crystal ball to see what was going to happen to the rest of us, when US Air and UAL went bankrupt and started flushing pensions down the toilet, yet too many of our Top Men at DALPA were in total denial.
"They would never do that! We have a Bankruptcy Protection Letter, they can't touch our pensions!"
