Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Because that money isn't free. It had to come from somewhere, and it didn't come out of the senior manager bonus budget, or the mini indy car budget...it came out of the pilot compensation budget, at the expense of other more senior pilots.
It's at the expense of shareholders, not more senior pilots. The pilot group chose to leave that money on the table when they voted in the last TA, and thus it was no longer part of the pilot compensation budget.