Originally Posted by
Old UCAL CA
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.
Considering the airlines are currently in an era of record profits and low fuel costs, I'd say that the "market forces" actually favor pattern bargaining.