Originally Posted by
CrispyBacon
Airline unions run the majority by boomers, would sell their own junior pilots jobs for an extra $1 an hour, if they thought they could win the vote. Companies like American still have strife, from the TWA merger in the early 90s. They have like 4-5 distinct 'legacy' groups within that company alone.
Agree re: eating their young in previous times. AA bought TWA in early 2001, not early 90s. Yes, there are many ‘legacy’ groups within APA but most all are apathetic or such a minority as to be insignificant except the LAA guys. There is a growing demographic: newhires “below the line” and they are the future with repaidly increasing numbers of people who were stuck at regionals a long time, and are tired of Regional like contracts and unions.