Perhaps, but the only way they REALLY can win is not fleecing IBT, but the pilots and only the pilots can let that happen. They've already nullified the union as they can't prevent this from going to the pilots without future jeopardy and blame. The only thing left to do now is fleece the pilots.......or more accurately IMO, to get the pilots to fleece themselves.

Pilots usually crumble to threats of doom and gloom especially with a lollipop offer provided they behave and that will likely occur. Then, as time goes on and more pilots there become more tethered to RAH as they get older, more senior with more invested, the more dependent they become and even less likely to defend themselves from future assaults. Some make it out to legacy's and LCC's and what not, but many will end up with long tenures of suffering a'la the battered wife and the Stockholm Syndrome.

Poor bastards.