Originally Posted by
Columbia
Just curious, were all the circa C2K contracts (AMR, DAL, UAL) negotiated this way, i.e. historically? Maybe those successes need to be considered the "new normal?" It seems more and more that a strike threat is no longer in the quiver as it was in the late 2000s.
Don't know about other airlines, but that was the case at DAL. The WSJ published an article (perhaps grudgingly) complimenting DALPA on C2K. When Grinstein took over, some time after 9/11, he made a speech saying (approximately): "It used to be that you ask for $10, I offer $6, you come down to $9, I raise to $7, and so on. But the time for that kind of negotiating has passed. We need XXX, period."
That "take it or leave it" posture doesn't work well, even during a crisis, and it certainly shouldn't work now. As far as the strike threat, If the pilots don't think they have it during profitable times, then they don't have it at all.
