Originally Posted by
disco inferno
An industry leading contract will make up for quite a bit of managerial failings. I'm curious which airline management you know of that isn't scum. It's been my experience thus far that being a dirtbag is an essential requirement of being an airline CEO. Jeff Smiesek, Doug Parker, Richard Anderson, Ben Baldanza ect ect are all profit driven animals that will step on anyone's neck they have to in order to raise the stock price a penny.
Management will push a work group as far as they are able. It is up to an individual pilot group to demonstrate there will be consequences and repercussions for their shenanigans.
I agree to a point, however if you talk to pilots at SWA, DL, UA, etc, most will tell you that management doesn't play games with their contract (I'm sure there are some exceptions). These CEO's, while profit-driven, realize that it costs more in the long run to mess with your employees. If and when we get a new contract, I foresee a "fly it and grieve it" attitude coming from our management. A leopard doesn't change his spots.