Originally Posted by
APC225
C97 was a big leap forward but I'm not sure it compared well industry wide. This was the contract that Bethune supposedly said they we were flabbergasted that we left $500m on the table because they had expected to pay that much more based on industry standard.
This has been refuted by Bethune himself. I saw the correspondence between him and another pilot where he asked if this was true and Bethune's comment was words to the effect of "I never said it. Where do they come up with this stuff? We fought like crazy on that contract."