Originally Posted by
Sunvox
The age of the airline strike may also have seen it's zenith. My crystal ball is clouding with age, but right now it shows little chance of a sympathetic Labor Relations Board ever releasing the American, Delta, or United pilot group to seek self help not to mention the trend in the industry today towards keeping labor costs nearly identical across the board. I think the current thinking in the C suite tends more towards labor costs being fixed and comparable versus a whole sale desire to subvert labor as was the case in the '80s under Reagan after the PATCO strike.
The "big four" have comparable pilot costs but the Spirits and Jetblues of the world do not. Their executive suite does not want to give up their cost advantage and thus views pilot costs as a variable cost. Their current playbook of stalling is working out quite nicely for their bottom line. I don't see things changing anytime soon...