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Originally Posted by SmitteyB  Pinnacle bought those Q400's with the money they got back from NWA.
What did/and should burn the Pinnacle Pilots is the deal for the Q's was like $250 million for the airplanes...weren't the two groups (PNCL ALPA and PNCL MGT) like $50 million apart for the LIFE of the contract? |
Something like that. The real gist of it is that Pinnacle would have been able, time and time again, to avoid losing buckets of money by giving in to the Pinnacle pilot group.
I've heard it said elsewhere- airline management types will step over a dollar to pick up a dime.
At the same time, they're not dumb. Giving in to one pilot group paves the way the next. 9/11 was the excuse they needed to beat us back collectively by decades. Now we've got the uphill, pitched battle of taking it back.