Originally Posted by
skybiker
Yeah, we knew the rules when we hired on. Also, part of the rule was a full retirement check which Ual ALPA signed away at UAL for a $550 million dollar payoff.
DALPA did the same thing. Both groups knew or should have known that a renewed push for increasing the retirement age was a foreseeable consequence of pension termination. By the same token, those who allowed "B-scales" years ago should have foreseen that there might be a payback from the junior pilots some day.
Our excuse is always "we had no choice." Maybe so, maybe not.