Originally Posted by flier320

the company was in a position where no pilots wanted to come here due to an abysmal first year pay. unable to attract anyone, even those requiring sponsors. they needed to increase first year pay and the only way of doing that was signing a new contract. the hits literally came rolling in right after the contract was signed starting with the p&w groundings, and it got painfully obvious that all these new hires wasn't required, combined with no attrition, ending in 3 rounds of furloughs and downgrades. looking back now I'm pretty sure bendo regrets signing it... the company singed a contract they could not afford.