Originally Posted by av8or

The short list of reasons why:

Until Delta put a base in SEA if you wanted to live in the PNW they were the only game in down in all the years where there were more pilots than jobs.

Contracts with a no strike clause and binding arbitration being the norm.

Infiltration of the Union leadership by management where once a Union leader sold the pilots on the TA and it passed, amazingly, they got a sweetheart job in management.

Kasher

A large contingent of PNW ex mil pilots with mil retirement that tend to not “buck the system”

My hot take anyway.