Originally Posted by
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Instead of insisting on the airlines with terminated pension plans to compensate their pilots with a suitable subsitution, ALPA's choice is to allow the pilots to make it up themselves.
Makes sense from their point of view. They can't ever admit that pension-dumping was a mistake, even if airlines post huge profits. Of the above alternatives, the second one yields more dues money and doesn't cost negotiating capital at the bargaining table. The price is alienation of junior pilots, but that has apparently been deemed affordable.