Originally Posted by
Taildragger1
Ed Bastion is a very smart businessman. He will not spend a dime he doesn’t have to. He’s extremely firm on this. ALPA, on the other hand, bends quite easily as demonstrated by the gutting of our retirement, thus rendering this an unsurvivable career choice by all Deadzoners and a severely reduced prospect for future generations.
Unless the pilot group is educated...SERIOUSLY EDUCATED, on the workings, philosophy, and tactics of self help, no meaningful steps toward restoring the profession will occur. I haven’t seen any evidence of that since letter 51.
The company is comfortably, yet firmly in control and as each one of us turn 65 with insufficient means of survival, we will have our own individual reflection as we look over our shoulder at this magnificent airline while escorted off the property for the last time.
A strong union with formidable unity as a priority could have achieved snap-backs at the least.
Considering the Pilot group resoundingly shot down TA-1 I think you are being a little pessimistic. And your Ed Bastion comment above reminds me of the “Richard Anderson said if we reject TA-1 we will get far less” comment last time around. How did that work out?
Yes our CEO is a smart man but guess what? The market for Pilots has more to do with what we will end up with than DALPAs incompetence or our CEOs genius.
In my opinion, the market or Pilot supply and demand is the paramount factor in negotiations and we currently have a very strong market.
Scoop