What bad management decisions? Airline management has about three basic
decisions - planes to fly, routes to fly, and how much to pay their
employees. The legacy carriers are paying about 2 cents per seat per
mile more for labor than the discount airlines. Some of that difference
is pension costs.

"Montblack" wrote in message
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("Robert M. Gary" wrote)
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Maybe you should point the finger at the unions that created an
unrealistic pension to
begin with and didn't allow changes to the program as discount
airlines ate their shorts.


Discount airlines ate their shorts because of bad management decisions
not related to pension costs.

Shall we also talk about "unrealistic" management compensation
packages?


Montblack