Originally Posted by
tomgoodman
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.
ALPA should be ashamed of what is happening. I am willing to bet, that if the DAL pilots had gone directly to management and said “take whatever you need from our contract to help us compete”, they would have given up a lot less.