bottom line, if the chicken laying the golden egg dies, no more eggs

the company's health indeed is important.

with that said, pay negotiations should not be "held up" for something outside of pilot control. This is not 9-11 or COVID. Barry and Gang have decided to outsource everything and end up with horrible gate agents, and a poor customer experience.

They are "accepting airplanes" because when you buy a car, the dealer doesn't store it for you. Come get your car. "But We don't need a car now." Not our problem, get this car off our lot, you own it now. So "accepting airplanes" means nothing. Of course they are "accepting" them. this goes back to Barry decision making.

He should have kept the XLR orders and jumped on the PHL (huge Irish population) to Dublin market. At least then, he would have diversified his portfolio with some international customers (wait, international is important and lucrative? who woulda thought?) versus hanging his hat on the ULCC customer.

Again, back to Barry decision making.

Pilots should not be penalized for that.