Originally Posted by
Judge Smails
Right, but my point is the 1000's of retirements don't mean sh!t when the economy takes a dump and oil goes back through the roof. Management will not think twice about taking those awesome pay rates and retirement and flushing them down the sh!tter with a cooked up bankruptcy. It WILL happen again.
They can't take retirement away.... they already did. That's why of all the current legacy pilots (the few I hang with anyway) have no interest in re-negotiating another pension. They want their money in their name ready to go with them if/when they retire or leave.
They could park fleets and not replace retirees and/or furlough, but the demographics say for the next 1.5 decades at least, unless 1/3 of the air traffic just dries up, there will be quite a bit of turnover.
NK is flying mainline aircraft to destinations in the US and near international, and they should pay their employees for a professional job. Heck your 321's supposedly seat more than a DAL/UAL 757, that should be mark that should be met.