Originally Posted by
BobZ
the major independent pilot groups in the industry did a more competent job at shielding their members from the economic calamity of the last decade.
Really? Fedex still has a pension, suffered very little contractual degradation and they are and were ALPA. The IPA fared similarly well too. Why? Cargo pays.
NWA (ALPA) pilots have a frozen A plan just like the APA. Why? Those airlines had more cash in BK.
CAL (ALPA) pilots have a frozen A plan because they didn't have a post 9/11 BK.
So the problem is not ALPA, it is the financial health of the individual corporations.
So I will ask again, please cite examples of contractual firewalls that non-ALPA unions used to withstand 9/11 and Chapter 11 challenges. We're all ears.