Originally Posted by Paid2fly

You do realize that the airlines have had multiple ticket price increases over the last several years that did "stick". They've also added multiple fee increases that have also "stuck". The result is all time record profits to the tune of Billion dollar plus net profits per quarter. In addition, their biggest operating cost(fuel), has been dropping significantly for the last several months!

Convince me of the "need" for any concessions from flight crews, let alone the audacity of not offering substantial pay and benefit increases to make up for the years of concessions and stagnation of this "profession"?