Originally Posted by
Plane Ramrod
According to your pattern bargaining plan, we should have jumped to the front in 2010. Giving 2010's performance and the fact we went through the hassle of getting released, went on strike, and ended up with this (for lack of a better term) CBA, proves it is the NC that doesn't understand pattern bargaining and leverage.
You are not correct. Being released doesn't entirely foreshadow an industry leading gains just like it doesn't guarantee or preclude a shutdown. In C2010 the rates were not as substandard as they are now. Care to remember what even USair was making at the time ? The only substantial leverage we had at the time was being on strike. We did not have long and sustained profitability with record margins. We didn't have the growth or size leverage we have now and will continue to see grow into the future