Originally Posted by
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With out the CAL and UAL concessions neither airline would have been in a positon to survive much less thrive.
That is the tarot card part of these downturns, 9/11 more than any in our lifetime. Were concessions to survive real, or just an opportunity of a lifetime for to them to take back all the gains made by a generation of pilots. Execs brought up in the 1980s bust the union ferver had to see this as a unique opportunity.