Originally Posted by
Lakeaffect
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.
I think you're missing the greater picture here. Allow me to expand on that...
We should not be beating ourselves up over the past and what could have been, but I think there is a lot to learn here moving forward. It was probably the best barganing environment that anyone of us will ever see in this career. Highly unlikely we ever see that again.
Best case scenario: We got a much more solid pay bump with extra goodies like snap up to industy average NB pay.
Worst case: We got nothing BUT we would have learned that much earlier on in the biggest legacy hiring wave in modern history. Attrition then opens up to the point that there may not even be much of an airline left for Jetblue's hypothetical merger (oh well, not our problem).
This should have been our line in the sand moment and this group chose mediocrity as usual. Not bad enough to give a lot of us the needed coersion to move on, but not great enough to get excited about either.
Just good ol' plain Jane vanilla living where every day is missionary Tuesday.
In the words of the late Sean Connery:
"Losers always whine about their best, winners go home and ******* the prom queen."
There are a lot of losers at this airline. I see it on their faces when I walk through the terminal.