Oil gets passed on to customers. Up to a point. At some point you lose customers due to high prices, and shrink or stop growth. That's bad for us, and has nothing to do with concessions. I never advocate taking concessions, ever, but there are circumstances in this industry which can be bad for business.

If business is bad, even if you don't think that impacts potential CBA pay, it obviously impacts seniority progression, upgrades, and bonuses. Simple-minded pilots think the company is an unlimited source of potential endless largess, with no upper limit, if only their union can squeeze blood from the stone. Unfortunately there's more to it than that.

And I don't like it when .gov artificially creates circumstances which are bad for business.