Originally Posted by
Onfinal
Thirty years ago, mid-80s era senior pilots (most now retired) sold out the new hires in A/B scale agreements to protect their own pay increases. This is where the demise of the profession began. Yes deregulation had a lot to do with it, but greedy pilots who were willing to sell out the junior and new-hire FOs and SOs have as much to blame.
I agree 100%. Pilots were already well into negotiating B-scales when de-regulation began. De-regulation merely accelerated the process.
RE-regulation is seen as a panacea for pilots pinning for the "good old days". However, the record of the past 30 years strongly suggests that pilots with the most seniority and biggest unions would merely take a bigger piece of the pie and force down "B" and "C" scales to smaller companies and newer entrants.