Originally Posted by
Rangerover
Buying another airline to force arbitration seems like a lot of work and money just to avoid bringing our pilot contract in to the 21st century. Like other people have said, if that’s the company play, they will drive way more pilots to the exit.
But do they believe that? Their conceptual framework may be that they'll never run out of pilots, and that it's a problem for middle managers to figure out how to recruit better. Worst case they might think that they can simply stagnate or shrink a little for a few years and ride it out. They may even have some data provided by hired analysts or industry groups that enables that thinking.