Yet if you look at their recent history they were making record profits quarter after quarter on the backs of the low pay and benefits of the pilots old contract that had been under "negotiation" for years. They could have negotiated a fair contract which would have kept their current pilots...
Mainline has to cover the flying so he doesn't need to lowball the bid and lead the race to the bottom. There are many regionals with higher pay and benefits than Republic that have won RFP's even though they refused to bid bottom of the barrel to get it.
Pretty sure nobody forced BB to bid as low as he did to win the RFP, and if he hadn't bid so low then the mainline carriers would have had to pay more to get that flying covered.
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