Funny that, I seem to recall that only a few years ago the pilot unions forced through ridiculous pay rises that those of us on the other side of the pond looked at with incredulity. The airlines warned that the pay rises were not sustainable. The unanimous verdict in Europe was that the pay settlements would bankrupt the airlines... and sure enough... just a few short years later... Ch 11 everywhere and the pilots were forced to eat swingeing cuts that left them worse off than they had been before the pay rises.
Perhaps if they had been sensible in the first place, all that could have been avoided.
Wonderful things, unions...
