Originally Posted by
AxlF16
To be clear, the 'huge advantage' will be for the CORPORATION.
I'll put a very fine point on this. Any of the big 4 in BK will completely screw all pilots. The resultant BK pilot contract will put extreme downward pressure on ALL of the other contracts...whether their companies enter BK or not.
Agreed. Don’t know if the pilot’s unions - ALL OF THEM - could exert sufficient political pressure to get it changed, but just as we use “pattern bargaining” to establish contracts under the RLA they seem to use “pattern bankruptcy” to break those contracts and drive scope concessions. Somehow we need to find a way to make that sufficiently expensive that bankruptcy will be a last option rather than merely a routine part of their toolkit.