Weren't they about to collapse the last year as well?
Plus they were not exactly making huge profits.
In corporate you are at the whim of the owner or the shareholders. The company can make billions, but if they wake up on a bad mood one day...
One example: General Electric flight department in US has just been closed, leaving tens of pilots on the street, with two weeks notice. The company just decided to charter instead of using their own metal.
On the other side the JP Morgan pilots just got 80k USD annual pay rise, plus other benefits. But again, who knows till when this will last...