... and since someone will claim I'm yelling "surrender" I'm not. Just saying to play the game smart. Part of the reason Hitler got his butt beat as badly as he did was he refused to even consider defensive strategies.
Management's got the strategic default play perfected. Have we developed our defensive position? A quick look through our playbook (our PWA, after several chances for Section 1 repairs and a few tweaks) is, nope.
I'm not saying we don't have good field position. Just pointing out four attempts at a hail mary and turn the ball over with no defense is ... ill considered. Just trying to interject a little balance before we get too excited about a 10% ' ish operating margin. For historical perspective, here's a little recap of United's 2000 contract from one historian:
Originally Posted by Bill Swelbar
That made the scope clause important trading currency for pilot unions that agreed to relax scope protections only in return for improvements in other parts of the agreement. For example, when United pilots negotiated a new agreement in the Fall of 2000, the union leveraged scope relief to demand a weighted average 23 percent wage increase and two subsequent 4.7 percent increases, as well as a number of other contract enhancements that ultimately contributed to landing the carrier in bankruptcy.