Originally Posted by Splash

Good post! I appreciate your thoughtful response. I disagree with your lack of faith in ALPA, but I accept it as a sincere assessment.

Personally, I believe bankruptcy DID represent a "reset", if not of wage rates, than of our shifting of priorities. I don't think any of us like our earnings to be as vulnerable as they proved to be in the period following 9/11, so the shift has been to make our PWA less vulnerable. Like it or not, we have the most to lose when seismic upheavals alter our industry. The pilot groups that weathered the upheavals the best (meaning with the least amount of impact on their earnings), had achieved their gains incrementally…and weren't well above the industry averages. They also tended to be at companies that had used an incremental strategy to grow and develop their networks.

I agree with you that we have good management. The wary part of me that doesn't want to revisit the chaos of the previous decade appreciates their conservative strategy. I appreciate that same strategy from our union.