Originally Posted by
Blockoutblockin
A lowering our expectation thread already, how nice. Wait, next is a possible furlough or even bankruptcy. You never know.
On the counter-point, people are asking pretty smart, pragmatic questions.
This industry has changed fundamentally over the last 35+ years. "Pattern Bargaining" (or "leapfrog" as we liked to call it) was a phenomenon that grew out of the regulated environment when there was less cost pressure to settle. The market forces are very different and very powerful today.
It isn't the industry in which your dad or grandfather flew...mine either.