Originally Posted by CincoDeMayo

1) Why is there a recession coming? Hasn't that been the chicken little call the last few years?
2) If you think the "Big 3 locking in their contracts" means anything in a recession, you haven't been paying attention or were around in the years 2000-2012.

Sorry but history has shown over and over that whoever is on top today, is the first to be sent to the bottom tomorrow, there is no "future proofing". Welcome to the airlines, it isnt all what some have seen the last 5 years, there is an ugly side to it. Not trying to be nasty to you, but there are way too many pilots who think the last 5 years is the "norm" and are not ready to see what the airlines really are outside of this swan even we have seen the last 5 years.