Originally Posted by
Rainbows
Management's two biggest concerns are keeping costs low and turning a profit. I'm gonna bet Delta and SWA end up approving a TA that has pay and retirment that's about what they were first offered. Scope may get fixed in the SWA contract. But we're all fools of we think management is gonna give pilots a big raise just because they're making big profits.
By that logic the legacies should never have gotten the huge contracts of the late 90s to 2000 but they did. Can they get them again? I don't know, but if you go into negotiations with the mind set that you wont make substantial gains then you wont.