Originally Posted by
Sink r8
I don't know that the second part of your post actually means anything, but the first is interestingly weird. So the plan was, in effect, to allow for farm teams, build the stadiums, but hope the young players wouldn't try their hand at all and simply hold out for million-dollar contracts?
No...not even close to something that well planned. This was very simple. Airline management were sick of paying pilots what they were paying them. Every time they tried to reduce it, pilots threatened some kind of labor action. Management finally figured out a way. Get people to cave in on scope language and outsource the flying to pilots who will do the job for far, far less. After all, pilots are pilots...there will always be pilots willing to work for next to nothing...right? The RJ guys proved the latter to be correct, we major guys proved to be short sighted idiots for agreeing.
Disturbingly simple actually.
Carl