Originally Posted by DonConsult67

Angry ??? Hardly. But accurate on all counts.

Truthful ??? On-Point, and the industry's history will validate every point I've made.

Rant ??? No way...just read the bankruptcy case files of the Delta's, United's, and American's everybody fantasizes about working for.

Interestingly, the very system most people complain about here is the very system created by the Delta's, United's and American's, but for some odd reason, most of those same people aspire to eventually work for them.

Again, just read the bankruptcy files of airlines and you'll learn how they REALLY treat employees and how CLEAR their one-sided and "ironclad" language can be. How many bankruptcies has Doug Parker been intimately involved with (and how many employees, creditors, lessors, etc. got screwed) ???

Finally, there is a reason that, unlike other industries which executives and upper management move laterally [that is, from being CEO, CFO, Upper Management, etc. of one industrial company to another], no such lateral movement has taken place out of the airline industry ~ and for good reason...no reputable company wants an executive who was made toxic by aviation, aviation culture, or who helped run their employer into bankruptcy court, often more than once.

And those are the folks you expect will "act in a fair an equitable manner".

Dream on...and BTW, ask the thousands of former Delta, United, USAir, Continental, Braniff, etc. guys about the promised "ironclad" contract pensions and "equitable" promises made to them - their retirement income, earned over a lifetime, is now being paid at 30-40 cents on the dollar by the Government's Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation; in short, compared to what they were promised in their "ironclad contracts" by those acting in a "fair and equitable manner", they're on Welfare.

The world is round and the industry will be back there again one day, and it will start with the extraneous regional airlines, businesses who refuse to learn you can't make money, over the long term, doing someone else's work.