Originally Posted by
oldmako
If you think that's what caused the demise of EAL, there is a hole in your historical airline knowledge base big enough to fly an L1011 through. At least according to everything I have read. I was paying the EAL strike assessment at the time and ravenously reading ......!
Guess you weren't there. The reason Borman wanted everything is because he was running it into the ground and "shrinking , to profitability. Every time EAL pulled a flight, Delta added two!
A senior captain at Eastern told me in '79 or 80 that " we won't be here 10 years". He wasn't far off.