Originally Posted by DAL 88 Driver

This is just flat out wrong. There was no "big leap." If you take 1980's rates and adjust for inflation to today, they come out within a couple of bucks more than C2K rates adjusted for inflation to today.

During the 1990's, we had a concessionary contract (POS96). I don't know what the pay cut percentage was (maybe a single digit percentage) but it was practically nothing compared to the 42% cumulative cut we took in "the dark years." I don't remember what the percentage pay increase was with C2K either, but it was certainly not a "big leap." All C2K really did was to correct us back on track to where we were prior to POS96. And since POS96 wasn't that big of a pay cut, C2K couldn't have been that big of an increase either.