Originally Posted by
Mesabah
Great points, everyone has given up a lot; I will ask a few questions though. If management had the ability to reject the contract why did they not go for more? Why not take the Song guys off the list too, or perhaps the 777 should have gone to Comair?
Does the company have to gauge the appetite of the pilot group at the time and then determine what they can get out of you? Why was 76 seat flying and below even on the menu?
Management had to show that without the contract rejection, the company would be unable to survive an exit from Chapter 11. You are going to have to ask management why they made the decisions they did. They asked for 200 79 seat aircraft because they wanted to.
They also asked to get rid of virtually every work rule we had. They asked to terminate our pension and give us nothing in return. They asked for a 21% pay cut with no provision for any performance based return or any build back. They asked for lots of stuff.