Indeed? So...Sigh!...Let me get this straight here: It was totally "stupid" for your group to vote NO, but yet..."We received what was turned down in the vote...plus the company wide raise." Well kid, don't mind any of that, and certainly don't ever stop flashing those pom poms around for pilots surrendering then, with even the proven results of your own group's experience, since you of course must counsel others to insanely surrender?....Seriously? I'd say this more gently, but it really just isn't possible, so....What part of your deranged fantasies failing even the slightest test of reality's thus far escaped you entirely? 😉
Folks...One simply couldn't EVER make this kind of "stuff" up, no matter how hard one tried.....
Bottom Line: Here's the deal Boys and Girls. This corporate "cluster" is now the world's largest airline, and it's only temporarilly in the hands of drunken frat boys/"purple tutus", who frankly aren't sufficiently intelligent to likely be around for more than a few years at most. They'll meanwhile try to make this into as much of an "America West, low cost carrier" experience as they can, since it's all they've ever proven themselves capable of doing. They'll be gone in at most a few more years, either from changed circumstances they can't adequately adjust to or even attempt to "manage", or simply their own general ineptitude with this scale of operations. Will you? They don't even begin to know how to actually run the world's largest airline, and will certainly prove that over time. They're already off to an almost amazingly "good start" by immediately alienating employees, even when the bulk of American empoyees initially saw them as "saviors"...Seriously; just how truly stupid is for them to completely blow that initial "romance" in record time? These people will NOT be around nearly even 1/2, 1/3 or even 1/4th as long as your careers hopefully are, and not by a long shot. It's up to the rank and file Pilots to determine just what you think you're really worth meanwhile.