Originally Posted by
notEnuf
What? I don't know a single pilot that hasn't been skeptical for oh, I'd say a decade or so. A lost decade. They know now is the right time to hold out for more. Can you build artificial-confidence in a group that is jaded from strikes, furloughs, and excessive years at the regionals (the same decade, see above) or those on their 3rd or more airline?
OK. I'll try. GO GET UM BOYS! (trumpets...) CHARGE!
Those things bring you confidence
that you can survive. I remember being humbled by my furlough, and proud of my family's resilience, but it wasn't without a cost. So jaded by furlough? Hardly.
Most of this group has never been permitted to be jaded by a strike, or a lockout. However, we've been anything but jaded by 9/11, LOA46, oil at $140, CH11, 1113, LOA51, the loss of the pension, the gigantic cluster-foque just to get a JCBA agreement the second time around (after losing value through infighting and indecision), and the merger, to the point where everyone knows the economic environment is a bit, well, fickle, and cyclical.
This thread is about pre-dismissing the very second-quarter results no-voters were saying were being deliberately withheld. It's not really a great argument.
I'm not saying the end of the world is near, but don't accuse people of selling fear, while looking at the world through rose-colored crystal balls, and selling "everything will be fine". My bank doesn't accept "everything will be fine" as a form of payment.