Originally Posted by
SSlow
No offense but that cannot be said with any amount of certainty.
Management was in an unprecedented hard spot and our MEC folded too early. It was arguably the best bargaining environment that many of us will see throughout our careers, and we blew our wad way too soon just like Jim in American Pie.
Oh, huh, I never thought about it like that, Maybe you’re right.
I’m not certain of anything. But looking honestly at the whole situation. Spirit’s financial position. P&W Eng issues. Frontier’s ability to keep their rates and still grow. Historical bargaining environment is one piece of a multitude of factors.
who knows, it’s not a given that we wouldn’t have gotten anything better, I would say it seem more unlikely to think we would have gotten closer to Delta or United though.
The ability to compromise and not see everything as either right or wrong with no middle ground is a lost quality. What we got was better, but not great, but still better.