Originally Posted by
Raging white
I think you'd admit the economic climates in '08 and today are a bit different. Losing billions as opposed to billions in profit. I disagree with your conclusion that it was the pilots asking for 50% that netted them "less".
Causation vs. correlation.
That was not the only reason, admittedly, but it lost them credibility and was one of the key reasons they netted less. For many years. And the climate is different now which is why they finally got a contract after/during their merger.
I believe it was both causation as well as incredibly poor timing in 2008-9.