After 40 years in this industry, my belief if this; this summer we will be no closer to a contract.

This airline board, including Oscar, are the ones who appointed Smisek. They also (largely) could not, would not, believe our nation’s economy would be doing so well under big orange hair. We parked too many airframes too soon, and held off on picking up others as they came on the market. Or fleet plan suffered and revenue suffered, as well as the IAH and ORD terminal capacities.

The “deplorable” are thriving, the country now leads in petroleum production, jet fuel down, seats full.

The board is still in denial and is now playing catch up-sorta, but still in waffling about the U.S. economy.”It just cannot continue”, and WHEN the president is impeached the gravy train will stop. So.... no contract. Too many in ALPA leadership are willing to believe it, so they don’t push harder for a contract now.


I won’t say, and it doesn’t matter how I know these things, and with only a few months left- it doesn’t affect me anyway. I do care about my younger friends and hate to see it.