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Old 04-30-2015 | 04:31 AM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
What were those concessions Carl? It was not manning.
I wouldn't normally jump into a Carl/sailing debate, but c'mon man.
Sometimes you post stuff that is just blatantly wrong and misleading.

There were numerous concessions in C2012 that reduced manning. I'll just remind you of the biggest one. The one that really hurt us the most and really burned me up because we gave it away for zilch:

Turning July and August into 30 day months.
That was a HUGE win for management. Those two months have always been the drivers of pilot hiring. The summer was our pilot job creation machine. Not any more. ALPA fixed that little problem.