Originally Posted by
LivingTheDream
While I fully recognize those days are gone forever, I don't think it is too much to expect a date-of-signing pay rate from a contract that existed 12
years in the past! (Not even including inflation.) And without significant concessions (I think we gave plenty during the dark years.)
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I have stopped believing in/hoping for any great changes in our contract... maybe I'll be proven wrong.
If you were a Southwest pilot, how would you change what you've written here?
No "great changes" over the years, if you define those as changes akin to C2K.
No big givebacks during the "dark years", and certainly no trip to bankruptcy.
Is there any chance the two are related? If the pilots who found themselves ahead of us during and after the "dark years" got there with small, methodical increases and improvements, would it be better to wish for a similar trajectory instead of "great changes"?