Originally Posted by stoki

Look at Alitalia! Their airline was 1 day away from seizing operations because their crews would not take a cut, and guess what? They are still flying, and have even got some company to invest in them, basically bailing them out of the cutter. Moral of the story? Management wanted concessions, and to reduce their T&Cs, other wise the company will go bust, and they gave them a big fat NO. Everyone was blaming the pilots and flight attendants for putting the company under, and they were already making less then other Euro flag carriers. Guess what happened? Nothing, the airline is still functioning, and the flight/cabin crews are victorious and still doing the job for what they have been before. If they said yes, the only difference would be is that they would have been getting paid less.

I wish we had a group like the Alitalia group here in the U.S.