Originally Posted by
CALPilotToo
You are certainly entitled to your opinion but once the Covid money was approved and it was approved in a timely manner to which no furloughs would have ever happened. And if 2-300 had been released in that Nov/Dec timeline they would have sat home and been paid by the Covid money. But if that narrative you mention is your beliefs so be it.
No pilot would have lost their houses or their Corvettes or Teslas. Simple as that.
I don’t personally know T.I., and from the fairly unanimous assessment of him from those closest (excluding the union members who have something to gain from maintaining his favor), I’m inclined to believe he was a bit of an autocrat, but I think you could kinda easily argue either side as far as the government money is concerned. The union negotiated a bunch of contractual improvements, LTD increase, first class deadhead, 5% raise in profitability, scope change etc, gambling that the government money would come through, and we would reap contractual betterments without having to feel the pain.
It feels like you’re attributing luck to one side and skill to the other, in kind of an arbitrary fashion