please stop with the personal attacks. I am not a union shill. And your judging me as worthless does not help your arguement.
Since you appear to be a math wiz lets follow your logic. So I implied that they could have avoided the strike for 1%. Now lets compound that and you will see that it will take ... a long time to make up $12B.
But hey a couple of years ago they paid $120m in bonuses to just the top 7 execs. (I think some of them are in jail right now). So explain to me again about greed.
It seems people here hate the guys who build the planes, the guys who design the planes. Who at the company do you think rises above worthless?
You'd think the guys who build and design their planes would become an owner one day and pay themselves gigantic amounts for having the best airline flying.
I guess it's just easier to pay another slug to represent you and leave you high and dry when their negotiations break down.