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STILL GROUNDED
ask the comair guys how standing up for whats right worked out for them. I wish everyone else would have stood with them. We'd all be in better shape if they had. <side note:I wasn't in the industry at the time.>
Depends on how you look at it. If there was no ACA contract 2001, there wouldn't have been TSA getting a better deal than what they had, the COMAIR contract 01, and AWAC's that followed later.
Just like had NW not sacked up and walked, there might not have been UAL 2000, DAL, with AA next at bat.
We all know the what and the why of how NONE of those companies pilots have it as good as they did. But making the statement of "ask the (insert guys) how standing up for whats right worked out for them" is a little short sighted.
Do you think that they SHOULDN'T have stood up? Even if none of the above listed carriers achieved the rates they did, they STILL would have been squeezed post 9/11.