Originally Posted by
ugleeual
If Gordon Buffoon gets on the BOD then we can kiss any future pay raises or work rule improvements for the forseable future... That 16% raise looks like a better deal now more than ever.
Gordon doesn't care if the employees make money. He only cares what happens to the stock price and the dividends to institutional investors.
The price of a pilot is the price of a pilot. Back when he was running Continental he didn't have to pay them much because of the market place. Supply of pilots was high, demand for the jobs not so much.
Today, our skills, judgement, and experience command and demand higher pay. Pilots are worth more in 2016 then they were in 1998.