Originally Posted by
Brickhouse
It's not dumb. Look at it from their perspective. Spirit has a lot more cash on hand then when we walked for five days in 2010. Spirit will be just fine for at least that long. We're already the least favorite airline and our planes are full. Spirit won't suffer from bad PR. But we, the pilots, (from management's perspective) will start to break down after a few days. We'll get desperate, scared. They'll threaten to shut the place down; sell every asset (except us) and cash out. We will be grateful (in management's mind) for any deal they offer.
It may well be their plan to use our threat of a strike against us. I'm not saying it would work, but it may be their plan. Yeah, it's outside the box, but we should be prepared for outside the box tactics. Anyone who remembers Contract 9000 should understand this.
Good guys don't always win just because they're good guys. They have a much better chance if they can think like bad guys.
This is a public company this time. The meltdown of 2015 cost them $64 million and the airplanes were still moving. This airline coming to a hault would cost them exponentially more and they owe it to the shareholders not to let that happen. When we get released they absolutely will come to the table with an industry standard contract to save their own hides. It's their strategy anyway. Stall as long as possible and then sign the deal they know they have to in the eleventh hour. Their only strategy now is to figure out how to keep stalling while appearing to be negotiating. Getting released is how we get our contract.
They don't want a strike I can assure you