[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by PilotMan

Oh I'm well aware of the money that was spent during Covid. You also seem to be fully up on the entire industry, so there's no point in explaining my point, other than to see that your views are incredibly simplistic. It's always black and white with you. Black and white is easy. Grey is a bit more complicated. Sort of like an essay I read that chastised a CEO for boasting that he was the only one to have a deal with their pilots done during covid, only for the opinion writer to assume it was a recent deal that was voted down, and how embarrassing that must be for the CEO. His views like yours make sense on the surface, and appear to mean X does equal Y, but he was wrong, because there was a deal, but not the one he was referring to, because he thought he knew better, but he didn't.

What's simplistic about it? The government gave a taxpayer bailout to the industry. An industry so flush with cash they had spent the past decade spending billions in stock buybacks.

Please explain it to us.