Originally Posted by
Hedley
There is pressure, but it isn’t absolute. Kirby knows that AA and DL can only hire so many people, and as long as we’re still better than the LCC’s, classes will have bodies in the seats. The biggest pressure is having a pilot group who is angry about being the worst among the legacies. Oscar did a decent job of trying to heal the scars from the past, especially with the LUAL side considering what they had been through. If Kirby continues to delay a deal, those scars will be opened further than they already have been. He knows that the busy summer schedule could be a train wreck with a ****ed off pilot group.
It’s just telling that for a new hire if this is the trend over a career that United will be last to play ball and management wants to play the long game how many people will still see united as a destination for an entire career. Delta specifically said they’d make their pilots the best paid and turned around and did that plus gave them great qol items. For Kirby to really take as long as this to really get a deal done says to me on the outside considering united that they care more about their bottom line than making their pilots happy, proud and shown to be valued as the best pilots in the world.